Re: No longer able to log in.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:29:32 -0500
Roberto Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
> OK. I have encountered a very annoying problem. This morning, before
> heading off to school, I logged into my machine (running Sarge) and
> printed something(a couple of pages from a PDF through xpdf). I
> promptly logged out and then noticed I forgot to check my email. When
> I tried to log back in, I gdm appeared
> to take a very long time. The mouse cursor would disappear over the
> password entry field. Long story short, I killed X with Ctrl-Alt-Bksp
> and it did not return. I switched to tty1 and tried to login. No
> joy. The login there would also hang, but I could kill it with a
> ctrl-C. I also cannot SSH into the machine.
>
> The mahcine has not been sending its regular logcheck emails, so
> something may be seriously wrong. But, on the other hand, the
> keyboard still works and I can attempt a login (though it hangs) and
> switch tty's.
>
> I suspect that a hard boot may fix the problem, but I am hesitant to
> take the Microsoft approach unless I have no other choice.
Have you tried logging in as root in the console (not the graphical
login)? I've seen just about this exact behavior when a /home partition
runs out of free space.
HTH,
Jacob
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