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[Graham Lauder <yorick_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 05 Oct 2010 14:29:50 Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote:
>   On 10/4/2010 8:43 PM, Richard Creighton wrote:
> > On 2010-10-04 Patrick offered the following:
> > > * John Andersen<jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>  [10-04-10 20:12]:
> > > > On 10/4/2010 4:29 PM, Bob Rea wrote:
> > > > > > (2) Can you login as a different user?
> > > > >
> > > > > root, yes, console and kde
> > > > >
> > > > > > > (3) What does the login screen actually say - 'Incorrect password'?
> > > > >
> > > > > no, I enter my password and it redisplays the login screen
> > > >
> > > > This almost sounds like you have bin/false as a login shell or
> > > > something other than bin/bash
> > >
> > > Then why could he log in to a text console?
> >
> > Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it looks like he's saying he's logging
> > into a console as ROOT in either kde or a terminal but not as
> > himself...if that is the case, perhaps it is because he is out of disk
> > space in '/' and cleaning up some space on the root device (perhaps by
> > erasing stuff in /tmp) would clear it up????
> >
> > Richard
>
> He specifically said he could login as himself @ console. Somehow we
> failed to quote that part of his email.
>
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2010-10/msg00140.html

I had this problem on a clients machine, Her son was learning use blender and 
blender filled tmp directory. I'm with Richard,  Go into a console as root and 
empty the tmp directory  

That's all I had to do.

Cheers
GL

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