reassign 459889 xserver-xorg-core severity 459889 minor thank you
Fernando Gomes wrote: > Thanks for your response Brice, > > But actually I couldn't start X manually. It seems like X doesn't work > if there's no space left on the hard disk. I don't know if this could > be called a 'bug' or if it's the normal behaviour for a graphical > environment. But it's clearly a problem because the error message > cannot be found anywhere, becoming difficult to find what's going on > and free up some space. I just discovered the problem when I typed > 'startx' then quickly typed 'CTRL-C' to break the process, so I could > see the error message on my console. > > I'm not an english speaker so possibly my explanation is kinda confusing. > > What we could call the 'bug' here is that X doesn't start when there's > no space left on the hard disk, and the only message warning that the > HDD is full is shown too quick, almost impossible to see it and > discover the problem. The situation is not common, but can happen, so > it could be a good idea to find a way to log this kind of error on > /var/log/Xorg.0.log or display a pop-up warning that X cannot start > due to lack of space on the hard disk. Well, if you solved the problem with apt-get clean, then it means that at least /var was full, so Xorg.0.log could not be written at all. It's hard to write an error message there then :) Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
