Did I barbeque my Debain system?

From: Redefined Horizons (redefined.horizons_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/09/05

  • Next message: Kent West: "Re: Did I barbeque my Debain system?" 
    Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 08:05:07 -0700
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    You guys are going to get tired of hearing from me. :]

    I was able to fix my problem with Synaptic. I installed the "fam"
    package and reinstalled gnome. I was then able to install Scribus.

    However, I seem to be having a problem when I reboot my Debian box.

    It appears the kernel is loading, and I can watch the system load gdm
    on the screen prompts. It then presents me with the graphical login to
    my system. However, when I enter my user name and password, an error
    message is presented. I think it might be an error from the X- Window
    server, but I'm not sure. Here is the message:

    "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged
    out yourself, this could mean that there is an installation problem or
    that you may be out of disk space. Try logging in with one of the
    failsafe sessions to see if you can fix the problem."

    I tried to login with the different failsafe methods, and even to
    access the terminal through gdm. None of the alternate methods were
    successful. This happended one time before. I simply reinstalled
    Debian. However, I don't learn much that way, and I'd hate to keep
    reinstalling my OS everytime this happens. (Although I'm getting
    pretty good at it.)

    I've got a 7GB hard drive, so I don't think I'm out of disk space, a
    possibility presented in the dialog. Just to be sure, I accessed the
    shell from a prompt during the boot process and removed KDE using
    apt-get. This freed up at least 40KB. I then removed and reinstalled
    gnome, thinking that this was the problem. Niether of these actions
    solved the problem.

    I'm really stuck here, and I'm not sure what to try next. What is
    causing this error? Is my swap partition not large enough? Is there a
    way to fix this problem, other than reinstalling Debian?

    I greatly appreciate any help.

    Thanks,

    Landon

    P.S. - I know all eventually get this Linux thing figured out, with
    enough patience......

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