DOH! was Re: [lug] Kmail Quitting

[Doug Shaw]

At 12:55 08/08/2001 -0600, nunar at iws.net wrote:

>Doh!
>I was out of space in my home partition!
>Hmm... That caused some real panic here.

>Quoting MauroMedia <nunar at iws.net>:
>
>> Alright, the problem just got a whole lot worse. I 
>fear
>> it\\\'s a KDE thing. I\\\'m unable to login to the system 
>via
>> the graphical login. I can do it as root, but not my
>> regular user. Is there a preference or a socket file
>> that needs to be taken care of?

This makes sense; unless you tell it not to do so, by default the
filesystem reserves a number of blocks for the superuser, meaning that when
your tools and utilities (and problems) tell you the filesystem is full,
root can still get in and work to resolve the problem.  This probably
explains why you were able to get in as root but not as other users,
because root had access to some free space that other users didn't.

Doug