On 6/12/05, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- "Scot L. Harris" <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 15:43, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > Dear folks, > > > I shutdown one of my computers and when I > > turned it > > > back on I get: > > > > > > Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If > > you > > > have not logged out yourself, this could mean that > > > there is ome installation program or that you many > > be > > > out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the > > > failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this > > problem. > > > > > > Other than reinstalling everyting, is there a > > simpler > > > way to fix this problem. > > > > > > Sorry to bother you again, > > > > Sounds like you might follow the instructions it > > gave you. I would > > suspect you are out of disk space. Boot into single > > user mode and check > > if that is the case and clean up the disk so you > > have enough space to > > boot. > > xfce runs, but KDE and Gnome do not. I dropped into > the failsafe shell, but I do not know which > command/commands to run and fix the problem. I have > 6.3 MB free so it is not a question of diskspace. > > The following files appear in the home directory > KDE.startkde.Ra5609 > KDE.startkde.Tq5518 > > I tried deleting these but when I try firing up KDE it > gives me the same weird message. > > Thanks, > > Antonio Um, maybe a typo, but 6.3 *MB* is not nearly enough disk space to do much useful stuff. Perhaps the output of the command "df -h" would be enlightening. Also, as root try: cd / du -hs * to see how much space your directories are taking up. If you can login as root and not a normal user (including a fresh one) that certainly sounds like a disk space problem. Jonathan
