[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2013-12-16 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gdm Status: In Progress = Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 Title: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted To manage

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2012-03-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
don't change years old bugs like that, there is already a bug about lightdm and things got improved in the precise version ** Changed in: unity-greeter Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to the

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2012-03-27 Thread d❤vid seaward
This bug still occurs with the Unity greeter in 11.10. (Greeter is not displayed, cannot log in.) ** Also affects: unity-greeter Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2011-03-28 Thread Ted Gould
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ted Gould (ted) = (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 Title: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted --

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2010-10-08 Thread shankao
I can confirm that this bug is back in maverick ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released = Confirmed -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2010-09-16 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gdm Importance: Unknown = Wishlist -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2010-03-17 Thread toddq
I figured out a four part solution to this problem which has been going on since 2006.The history itself (which is given below) reveals the solution. Part I https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144473 has a partial fix for gdm which has not been assigned to anyone. Part II The next part of

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2010-03-16 Thread toddq
It appears to me this bug is back. That is, the same thing happened to be in Ubuntu 8.10 today -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber.

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2010-03-16 Thread toddq
I should have also noted that Ted Gould's solution doesn't work in 9.10. That is, simply rebooting the computer has no effect. This problem began with the latest upgrade. -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2008-03-13 Thread Ted Gould
As discussed this morning in the Desktop Team meeting we're going to mark this bug as fixed. Adding the ability for GDM to handle this is a different bug. ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Released -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

Re: [Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2008-03-12 Thread ultim8k
2008/3/8, Ted Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 12:43 +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Can't the check to mount overflow tmp just be added to gdm each time it restarts? Well, not directly. GDM runs as the gdm user, and so wouldn't have root permissions. Now, if there were a

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2008-03-08 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Can't the check to mount overflow tmp just be added to gdm each time it restarts? -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

Re: [Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2008-03-08 Thread Ted Gould
On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 12:43 +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Can't the check to mount overflow tmp just be added to gdm each time it restarts? Well, not directly. GDM runs as the gdm user, and so wouldn't have root permissions. Now, if there were a set uid script that did this, that could do

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2008-03-07 Thread Ted Gould
I created a virtual machine running Hardy. Then I switched to a VT and filled up the disk with dd. When trying to login, GDM prompted me with an error that the disk was full, and it could not create the authentication tokens. There was no way to log in. I rebooted the machine. Upon reboot

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2008-03-06 Thread Martin Pitt
Since we have /etc/init.d/mountoverflowtmp, there is a chacne that this is already fixed in Hardy. Ted agreed to test this throroughly to verify. ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) = Ted Gould (ted-gould) Status: Triaged = Incomplete -- Unable

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2008-02-14 Thread Leann Ogasawara
** Tags added: qa-hardy-desktop ** Tags removed: qa-hardy-list -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2008-01-28 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
I am now testing hardy, I reported bug #186633 which seems to be different than this bug, but may be confused for it. Does it look like the same bug to some of you? -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-12-14 Thread Pedro Villavicencio
** Tags added: qa-hardy-list -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-12-13 Thread uncle
I also confirm this BUG and waiting for any solution! -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-10-05 Thread ultim8k
i confirm this bug -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-10-02 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Do you consider the bug fixed in gutsy then? The tmpfs looks like a different issue -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-09-29 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
I experienced the problem of disk space exhausted recently. It worked, i.e. I was able to log in, but nobody warned me so I had to interrupt my work and reboot when I noticed that the tmpfs had been mounted. I don't understand if the tmpfs can be mounted also while users are logged (I guess not or

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-09-06 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Does anybody still get the issue on gutsy? ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-09-04 Thread TonyO
I have the same issue, except the fact with mine is that I freed more than 4 gigs of space by deleting some stuff and removing a ton of sofware with synaptic and apt-get, checked it with df -h, only to reboot and find that my computer had somehow reclaimed that space and my root partition returned

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-06-03 Thread Sebastien Bacher
That's going to be worked for gutsy, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootLoginWithFullFilesystem -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-06-02 Thread carvell
The fact that you can't log in to uninstall something because you've run out of space is more the point, I think. -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-04-30 Thread Beaumont Muni
I agree ... this should be a high priority bug. I have tried other suggestions from earlier discussions where it was suggested that for some reason the ownership on the .ICEauthority file in my home directory has changed. And all that was needed to do to resolve the situation was to was to remove

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-04-30 Thread Sebastien Bacher
The gdm code is mostly upstream you will likely get the same bug with any other linux distribution -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-04-30 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Note that it's easy enough to make some space, just uninstall something you are not using -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-03-03 Thread Ian
I agree that this should be assigned a higher priority, Why, yes, it did catch me last night :) It's made worse by the behaviour of ext3 when full: you can delete files using 'rm' or 'apt-get clear' *BUT* the free space doesn't increase?!? (Because the journalling system couldn't write anything

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-03-03 Thread Ian
Ah yes, my other comment about the current position is that it's particularly annoying when you've (sensibly) put /home on a different partition: by picking a different session, you can get a simple graphical login working (albeit without menus) *BUT* there's no way to change to root in order to

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-02-12 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
There already is reserved space (for root, and gdm is launched as root) however this space can be filled by root itself using e.g. apt or pbuilder. Reserving space for a single program might be interesting but would require kernel modification. I have a simpler solution in mind, but I am still

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-02-12 Thread mnemo
I'm glad that talented people like Vincenzo etc are actually thinking about ways of solving this. This bug has caused me a lot of problems and I would love to see it eliminated. -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://launchpad.net/bugs/35217 -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2007-02-11 Thread DivineOmega
I would recommend this bug be raised to at least High priority. A good friend of mine recently had this problem and we were almost at the point of formatting reinstalling the system, until I happened to remember hearing about this bug on the Ubuntu forums. To fix this bug, we installed a free

[Bug 35217] Re: Unable to login when disk space is exhausted

2006-12-04 Thread Matt Zimmerman
** Summary changed: - no indication when login fails due to lack of disk space + Unable to login when disk space is exhausted -- Unable to login when disk space is exhausted https://launchpad.net/bugs/35217 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com