Problems logging in

[yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]

Cool... I solved it.  Or, well, my friend did, but I thought I'd post the
solution here in case fellow or future newbies have the same problem.

It was actually pretty simple once I found out how; apparently Linux
starts up a bunch of non-graphical interfaces whenever it starts up, and
you can get to them with "crtl-alt-FX" where FX is a F1 to F6.  Logging
non-graphical was no problem, I used "df" to see that I was indeed pushing
at my disk space limit (2.9G used of 2.8G), nixed the partial Mozilla
build, and used "crtl-alt-F7" to get back to the graphical login.

Wondering Aimlessly,
James Anderson

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 jwanders@uvic.ca wrote:

> Hya,
>
> I'm running yellow dog 2.3 (kernel 2.4.19-4a) on my iMac, and this morning
> started experiencing problems logging in.  It boots up fine and gives me
> the graphical login, but after I enter my username and password, it loads
> for a while and then redisplays the graphical login prompt.
>
> I preformed the initial install this Chistmas, and everything's been
> working fine since then.  I suspect that it might be a disk space issue,
> as I attempted to do a build of Mozilla yesterday, failed to do lack of
> disk space, and I may well have forgotten to clean up afterwards.
>
> Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Wondering Aimlessly,
> James Anderson
>
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