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Old 10-12-2005, 09:50 AM   #1
reksav
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cannot login as user after gnome 2.12 upgrade


im running fc4 and i just upgraded from 2.10 to gnome 2.12... since the upgrade i havent been able to log back into my user (reksav) but am still able to login as root... an error comes up saying ive been logged in for less than 10 seconds and to check my disk space... i have 10+ gb free on every drive and still wont work... any ideas?
 
Old 10-12-2005, 11:41 AM   #2
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Re: cannot login as user after gnome 2.12 upgrade

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im running fc4 and i just upgraded from 2.10 to gnome 2.12... since the upgrade i havent been able to log back into my user (reksav) but am still able to login as root... an error comes up saying ive been logged in for less than 10 seconds and to check my disk space... i have 10+ gb free on every drive and still wont work... any ideas?
10+ GB (gb stands for gram-bit ) for every drive is not good enough. What about partitions?
 
Old 10-12-2005, 02:23 PM   #3
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sorry, GB, and 10+ every partition on every drive...

i got it to work by

chmod -R 1777 /tmp && switchdesk gnome
 
  


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