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this problem is occurring at times when i try to login to server
with root user or another user its giving me the message
"Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean there is some installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem."
i connected through SSH to the server and checked the space in /tmp its 876m free.
"Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem." --> did you already tried that?
(if youre using a graphical login manager there should be an option "failsafe")
if yes, what happened then?
there could be a mistake in the configuration, i had this problem when i tried to login without having any home directory.
check your home direcory on the server ( echo ~ or something like that when being logged in trough ssh)
maybe it could be useful to know what software you're using.
HOW exactly you tried to login on that server?
it's gdm that's printing that message, right?
did you used something like gnome?
yes there is a failsafe option.....how can i fix it after logging
into the failsafe session.??
I did
[root@ebs ~]# echo ~
/root -------> the home directory is correct.
Its not the gdm thats printing the error.the only error is
"Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean there is some installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem."
gnome,kde,system default, every session is giving the same error..!!
plz let me know how can it be fixed by logging in the failsafe session.
delete?
if your have permissions to, delete everything while not running any bif application. I do this every time i log out, that won't hurt your system normally.
i checked all these files are having paths of Oracle files which it is acessing.
[oracle@ebs tmp]$ cat /tmp/list_347333
/oraapps/proddb/9.2.0/......
/oraapps/prodappl/eam/11.5.0/...
I am having Oracle EBS 11i.
can i proceed with the deletion.!!
hmm...
i dont know oracle.
but a program wouldnt be a good program if it needs files in /tmp more than 1 session. Maybe it expects old files to be deleted. but i dont know.
this coputer is shutting down sometimes? if not, /tmp-clean scripts wont run.... could be the reason.
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