Doctor, It Hurts When I Boot My Linux

[nemorathwald]

The hard drive on my Linux computer is 2.7 gigabytes. And yet when I upgraded from Kubuntu Breezy Badger Beta to the official release of Breezy Badger, it reported that it couldn't finish the process because the hard drive is full. I checked the properties panel for the hard drive and indeed, it was full.

My problem today is that when I type in my password (which I know is correct) to log into the computer, the monitor clicks as if changing resolution, the screen goes black, then grey with a grainy clock mouse cursor, and then back to the log in screen again.

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[zifferent.livejournal.com]

Hit and login at the prompt with your login name and password.

type:

df

and copy and paste the results here.

To conserve some space you might want to clear your apt-get cache by typing:

apt-get clean

Try df again and see if you've cleared out some space.

[mjwise.livejournal.com]

Hm, Random Guess: The new install got to install perhaps a new version of X and some new startup scripts that call a particular new or update window manager or desktop environment, but the install ran out of space before it got to install said new or updated window managers. As a result, attempting to login tries to start a window manager that isn't there to be started, and thus the startup fails back to the login screen.

I haven't used linux regularly for about 5 years now though, so I wouldn't be sure how to fix it, especially on today's new-fangled distributions. (Back in my day, we had RedHat Linux 4.0 and we liked it! ;) )

[zifferent.livejournal.com]

that should say ctrl + alt + f1. I used greater than and less than symbols and, lj thinks it's html.