Last week my /root partition filled up and the laptop would not 'boot'.
I looked at the system by booting from a live CD and Gparted to
confirm a full partition; I could not extend / as the swap and /home
partitions followed directly.
After backing up /home to another area I played around with the
partitions, shortening, making space, moving each partition and ended up
with twice the space for /, 1.4GB swap and a shorter /home: left some
space (unallocated) in case the problem repeats it's self.
Shut down and re-started with fingers crossed, booted OK and all files
still there, system working normally.
Following day after several 'boots' it suddenly started intermittent
failing during the start with:
(process:349): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user
id(0)
If I shut down and try again it will complete the boot and login screen,
working as normal.
Sometimes it may need 2 or 3 tries, other times it behaves normally.
Watching the boot screen process (visually) it starts with Unbuntu
screen (underscore dots flashing) gets past the webcam checking (webcam
flashes) then fails before Login screen.
When moving the partitions I did not re-do the partition table: should I?
Sorry for long text but that's the order of doing things. I hate
intermittent faults!!
Clive
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