On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Tom Browder wrote:
>
>
> I have an RH 7.0 setup which was working fine until yesterday. Then I started a
>process that filled up my root partition. I was
> able to remove the rogue file and worked along OK until logout a the end of the work
>day. This morning at boot time I got the usual
> friendly RedHat GUI login prompt. When I attempted to login, the screen went
>through its usual flicker and then I got the GUI login
> again. The same thing happened as root or user.
>
> I started up in single-user mode and cleaned out my .gnome* directories and tried
>again--same thing.
>
> I've done the Xconfigurator thing again, used .xinitrc with exec gnome-session, and
>nothing has worked.
>
> Apparently something in /tmp got trashed at disk-full time and now my configuration
>is hosed.
>
> Any ideas for recovery would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tom Browder
>
Tom,
The only time I've seen this behavior previously was actually due to the
fact that there was a "/tmp/orbit-[username]" with incorrect information.
You may want to try looking for that file and removing it from the console,
then trying to log in. Other than that, check for the usual suspects:
"/etc/inittab", "/etc/passwd", "/etc/shadow"... and, of course, make
sure the home directory for that user exists and has the correct permissions.
What errors do you see in the "/var/log/messages" file? Can you log in
from the console (try Ctrl+Alt+F2)?
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