Comment 2 for bug 54147

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Pekka Jääskeläinen (pekka-jaaskelainen) wrote :

This is a very painful bug, as a "normal computer user" is unable to recover from this situation, as she cannot log in to text mode and remove files with 'rm' command. This situation occurs eventually in case you have a small hard disk (e.g., in a laptop) and you update your packages regularly (without running 'apt-get clean') and/or some of your daemons freak out and write a log file which fills the HD.

GDM seems to have a similiar bug (Bug #35217).