-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 at 6:28 PM, Randy Stapilus <stapi...@ridenbaugh.com> wrote:
> Thanks to those who helped with my partition/mounting question. Now, > with Linux installed, I have another once. > > I got through that process and set up the dual boot. Windows appears > to function properly. And so did Linux Mint - until a couple of > minutes ago. I was able to get around the OS, reconfigure a few > things (like desktop appearance), get on line with Firefox, download > and open an app (scribus). But then I got an error message indicating > an issue with authorization (this after I had already loaded in > scribus). I logged out, and now when I try to log in I get this: > > "GDM could not write to your authorization file. This could mean you > are out of disk space or that your home directory could not be opened > for writing. In any case it is not possible to log in. Please contact > your system administrator." > > Any suggestions what I should do now? You can boot into single-user mode by appending "failsafe" (without the quotes) to the boot command. Some distributions term it Safe Mode, and you might already have a boot choice set up in your boot menu for this. You may have to login as root (userid "root"), with your root password. The df command will show how much free space remains on each partition, and if that shows 0 in the Avail column for your home partition then it is the problem, that is, your /home partition somehow got all filled up. If you have free space in your /home partition, then you can check that you still have permission to write to your userid directory there, with the ls -al /home/userid command, where 'userid' is your userid literal. If your userid is "rxs" the command would be: ls -al /home/rxs The directory listing should look something like this: drwxr-xr-x 57 rxs rxs 12288 2009-10-30 19:11 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-10-21 15:05 ../ - -rw-rw-r-- 1 rxs rxs 24 2009-03-16 01:19 .somehiddenfile - -rw-rw-r-- 1 rxs rxs NNN YEAR-MM-DD HH:MM somenothiddenfile The important line is the top one, the entry for your own home directory that starts with ./ on the right. The third and fourth columns are your home directory owner and group. If they're not your userid that is your problem. If somehow your ownership of your home directory got changed, you should be able to change it back running as the root user, by using the command chown rxs:rxs /home/rxs (change "rxs" to your real userid throughout). If your issue isn't one of these problems, try to post more information. Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrrq4sACgkQ+qYMIUkNJCxWuwCeN6A0YQPMBBUWpfQVujdsdCPA BUoAn3Vj0JqCUlFshRw5mKjt9W5q8IzF =cDFI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
