Hugh,
This sounds as if you have user or disk quotas enabled, and have exceeded
one of the hard limits. As root, open linuxconf, config-->File Systems -->
Disk Quotas.
Either relax them (ie, increase the default values) or disable disk quotas.
Also check to make sure that your drive(s) aren't full.
Michael
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Michael Viron
Registered Linux User #81978
Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
At 04:50 AM 08/06/2001 +0000, Hugh Cecil wrote:
>Hi
>I've been using Mandrake 8.0 for a few months and enjoy it very much.
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>However, today I find I cannot su to root anymore from a user account.
>In a terminal I su, type in root password, and get this:
>[user@localhost user]$ su
>Password:
>File Size Limit exceeded
>[user@localhost user]$
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>Similarly, when I try KDE su in File Manager (Super User Mode) I get an
>alert box which says:
>Conversation with su failed
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>My security level has always been set at 3. I did recently have a play
>with InteractiveBastille, but I'm not sure whether that caused it.
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>Any enlightenment appreciated.
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