wont login

ramx · 03-12-2015, 04:47 PM

hello everyone,

when i press intro to login, the pc act like a refresh page... no login at all,

i guess is because i dont have space in the system(debian)part.

so im wondering if i remove olds kernels i can get some free space, if this not help,

any idea?

thanks in advance.
regards ramx

ramx · 03-12-2015, 05:09 PM

i free 200mb doesnt work,

JeremyBoden · 03-12-2015, 05:55 PM

I assume you are running Debian???

Can you try CTRL+ALT+F1

This should give you a full screen command entry.
Enter your user name and press the enter key.
Then enter your password - no characters will appear to be entered and press enter.

You should then be logged on and you can enter commands such as

Code:

df -h

This shows disk usage on a per file system basis.
If you see any high percentage disk usage then it would be worth pasting the details on this forum.

ramx · 03-12-2015, 05:57 PM

how critical is if i cleanup /var/tmp?

ramx · 03-12-2015, 06:05 PM

surfing in the web i find this cmd
du -sk |sort -n so i apply this in /var/tmp# and show up this: 27840 .? how i know this is MB or GB?
and do the same thing with-------->/var/log# and show up this: 46301464 .? <--- seems a lot of space jajajajjaj
and if i clean up i hope no broke something.

waiting for your help for proceed.

thanks in advanced
regard ramx

JeremyBoden · 03-12-2015, 06:47 PM

Code:

du -sh /var/tmp

will give the answer in human units.

The k parameter causes the answer to be given in 1K blocks - which is not really helpful.

My PC gives values of 11MB & 15MB respectively.

If /var/log is very large, do you have processes writing lots of log data to syslog (or other log files)?