Can't log in, no error message, when disk is full

[Darxus]

Binary package hint: gdm

I briefly see my desktop, then get dumped back to the login prompt with no error. Logging in from console still works.

At minimum, gdm needs to throw an error saying that you can't log in because the disk is full, and that you can do so by hitting ctrl-alt-f1 and logging into the console.

I initially thought this matched bug #35217, but it was closed "fix released" two yeas ago with "Adding the ability for GDM to handle this is a different bug."

I haven't looked into this bug much, but it seems like it really should be possible, and entirely worth while, to come up with some way to reserve the space necessary to allow login. Possibly by doing whatever filesystem activity is necessary within a pre-allocated file?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gdm 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 7 12:48:45 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

[Darxus (darxus)]

Nope, this bug is for a lack of an error message. Apparently something new. Bug #41170 links to an upstream bug that says there was a good error message.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

you're welcome to send it upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

the upstream bug is the same you're describing here and this discussion should happen on the upstream bts, please drop your comments there, marking this as duplicate of bug 41170 since that one is tracking upstream bug 350535, thanks.