Logging in when disk full
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gdm (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I was ftping a file from another machine to my ubuntu machine and it caused the hdd to become full, the ftp transfer failed and I accepted that there just wasn't enough space for it on my ubuntu machine, so I deleted the file and shut down the PC.
When booting back into ubuntu I discovered that it wouldn't let me log in because the disk was full. I had to go in via recovery and look for big files. I eventually found that 'trash' was 600MB big, it was clearly that that was preventing me log in, deleted all files in trash and was then able to log in.
I'd suggest a scheme whereby the user is alerted when shutting down ubuntu that they won't be able to log in next time, or perhaps a system whereby if you can't log in because your disk is full, 'trash' is examined to see if emptying that would allow the user to log in.
Using 7.04 FF.
| Murat Gunes (mgunes) wrote | #1 |
Thanks for your report; I'm marking it as duplicate of bug #35217. Various approaches for a fix are discussed in the comments in that bug and the corresponding upstream bug.