On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 21:35 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At present, the machine offers only a CLI login; if I use is as > > root, startx still works; but if I log in as user, startx fails. So I > > can't run Pan, and can't c&p directly between anything in it (including > > this list!) and the CLI. > > Just a quick note: if either /var or /home are full, X will not start. > I think /tmp may also be a problem if full. By default, about 5% of the disk space is reserved for root. If free space is low, then a normal user will be out of disk space, but root might still have some of the reserved space. That sounds like it may be the case here. Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines