54 GB in /var/log!!

[Tim]

On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 20:12 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> At present, the machine offers only a CLI login; if I use is as 
> root, startx still works; but if I log in as user, startx fails.

Just by the by, that sort of thing is typical if /tmp isn't writable to,
or has the wrong permissions.  You *could* have two problemsm /tmp plus
your huge log issue.

[tim at gonzales ~]$ ls -ld /tmp/
drwxrwxrwt 32 root root 4096 2008-10-27 15:57 /tmp/

[tim at gonzales ~]$ ls -ldZ /tmp/
drwxrwxrwt  root root system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0       /tmp/

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686

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