Bug#459889: Lack of space on HDD causes X to fail and it doesn't show any messages

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Subject: Bug#459889: Lack of space on HDD causes X to fail and it doesn't show any messages
From: "Fernando Gomes" <ferdi80@ig.com.br>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:58:53 -0200
Message-id: <[🔎] acb22abd0801090258j5993be43s19ed7f6e5938f8e0@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-to: "Fernando Gomes" <ferdi80@ig.com.br>, 459889@bugs.debian.org

Package: Xorg or maybe KDM or GDM
Version: Debian Etch

I've made an upgrade yesterday on a laptop to the latest Etch release, and suddenly the graphical environment stop working due to lack of space left on the hard disk. It took me some time to figure out what happened because no messages were shown on /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and KDM didn't report anything too. I had to manually start X, and quickly type CTRL-C to see the error message. After run a 'apt-get clean' the system worked again.

My suggestion is to do something to show a warning, preferably in graphical mode to avoid this kind of error.

Thanks for this great distribution and keep up the good work!
--
Fernando.

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