I do not have a solution but I hope the following may help in diagnosis trail.
I had a similar problem under RH 9.0 when the desktop (or X) crashed and I had to re-log in. It turned out that the available space on my /home partition, as detected by fdisk, was incorrect (less than what was expected) and fsck did not reveal or correct it problem. I can't remember clearly, but it seems manually migrating the /home partition to another place, deleting and re-creating the partition (if the partition is separate), and copying back the data was the crude solution. (BTW: data was not too critical, as the system was only newly installed!) ----- Original Message ---- From: Pedro Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 4:29:34 AM Subject: Re: I Can't log in SL 4.5 I logged in through ctrl+alt+ f2, but I don't know what to do to fix the problem anyway. Thanks, Pedro Ferreira. Connie Sieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Dylan Knight Rogers wrote: > You should try to login in via a "text window". Use ctrl-alt-f2 to switch > to a text window and login in there. This will bypass GNOME completely. > > This is sometimes problematic, as certain daemons may print errors to > the generic tty screen in both bash and zsh (even within a 'screen' > session), which obfuscates what you're typing. These errors normally go to tty1 which is f1 that is why I suggested he go to f2. -Connie Sieh > > Your idea is fine, but I think he should move into the failsafe > terminal, instead, which does not require a full GNOME, only gdm, to > access. > > On 11/21/07, Connie Sieh wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Troy Dawson wrote: >> >>> Pedro Ferreira wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I would really appreciate some help here. I am a starter at linux and I >>>> installed SL 4.5 on my pc. After some weeks it worked fine (besides I >>>> haven't registered it on redhat.com), >>> >>> There is no need to register at redhat.com if you are runing Scientific >>> Linux. Except for their source code, which anyone can get from their >>> ftp site, they are not associated with Scientific Linux in any way. >> >> And you should not be able to register it at redhat.com because you do not >> have a redhat subscription. >> >>> >>>> and yesterday when I tryed to log >>>> in GNOME a message appeader saying that my session lasted less than 10 >>>> seconds and one of 2 things should be happening: or I am out of disk >>>> space (which I am NOT), or something about saving my last session. The >>>> result is that I can't log in, only on security mode (terminal only), >>>> but as long as I don't know what to do, I can't fix it. >>>> Does anybody know what is happenning? >>> >>> It sounds like you cannot log into your home area for some reason. What >>> that reason is ... we'll have to figure out. >>> >>> Is your home area on a network disk of some type? Or is it on the disk >>> in your computer? >>> >>> If it is on your computer, is your home area on it's own partition? >> >> You should try to login in via a "text window". Use ctrl-alt-f2 to switch >> to a text window and login in there. This will bypass GNOME completely. >> >> -Connie Sieh >>> >>> Troy >>> >>> >> > > > Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o único sem limite de espaço para armazenamento! ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/
