Comment 3 for bug 35217
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| Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote Re: no indication when login fails due to lack of disk space | #3 |
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(Get the code!)
A way to log in must be provided anyway, I don't think it is acceptable for all ubuntu users to be able to log in inside a virtual console and type commands to remove files - at least, my mother would not be able to do so but she's able to use a graphical interface. We should identify what files must be necessarily created in order to log in and mount a ramfs ad-hoc for those files. Or the free disk space reserved to root could be perhaps used for the purpose (by writing some setuid program, but this would perhaps create more problems than it would solve).
The priority of this bug should be raised: if my disk is full, I can't log in (at least in the GUI) so how do I delete files? This is similar to nautilus-cd-burner not burning on the fly: I decide to write my files to DVD since I am running out of disk space, and I can't write files to DVD since I am running out of disk space.
Not willing to be polemic in any case :) just want to point out that this is an important bug.