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Bug 135835 - Warn if disk full when trying to log in
Warn if disk full when trying to log in
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 72541
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-03-01 15:32 UTC by Ville Ranki
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Ville Ranki 2004-03-01 15:32:09 UTC 
I just again helped a friend to solve why he
can't log in. It's quite common that user
has run out of disk space and can't log in. There's
no any indication of what happened and user is
returned to GDM prompt.

I think it would be a good feature in GDM to check
disk space and warn if there isn't any left. This
wont' help users who need graphical file manager
to free space but it will at least let user to
know what's wrong.
Comment 1 George Lebl 2004-03-04 18:53:07 UTC 
Which version exactly was this?  Some work has been done fairly
recently  (in the GNOME 2.4 version) to make sure this is ventilated
to the user, though perhaps that logic is not working right.  I've
just added some code to cvs to make this less of a problem by
attempting to wipe old
xsession errors files and trying adding cookies again.  In any case if
it is in fact the session failing, you should file a bug for
gnome-session.  It's just not acceptable for that to fail on out of
diskspace.
Comment 2 Brian Cameron 2005-02-03 21:47:07 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72541 ***
Comment 3 Brian Cameron 2005-02-03 21:48:49 UTC 
Actually this bug isn't a duplicate of 72541 which is about gdm2's space usage
and not the user's disk space usage.  However, I'm going to close this bug, because
the problem, as George says, is with gnome-session.  I'll let the bug reporter
create a new gnome-session bug if he still sees the problem in post GNOME 2.4
codebase.