[Bulk] Re: Can't boot after an update

[DB]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 23 May 2009 20:41:16 DB wrote:
>   
>> Anyone got any thoughts as to what might have happened & how I might get
>> past this %&&(%$$ login??
>>
>> Many thanks (again) for any help
>>
>>     
> Unlikely as it seems, it looks as though something has messed up your /home 
> ownership.  Use Failsafe again, and try 'ls -l /home/dave'.  If the ownership 
> is not shown correctly use 'chown -R dave:dave /home/dave' - altering the 
> commands, of course, to your system's needs.
>
> If the ownership is correct and so are the permissions, still in failsafe mode 
> use passwd to reset it - 'passwd dave' will ask you for the new password.  
> HTH
>
> Anne  
>   

Thanks Anne, permissions, ownership & password were all OK.......But 
/tmp was full!  Cleared out the .trash & I'm back in business again.  
I'll be trying the varioous scripts I've seen on other forums for 
clearing /tmp automatically!

Need to try the Live CD again now &  see whether that runs!

Thanks again for your help

Dave