An interesting X11 problem/solution...

[Matthew Flaschen]

D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> Long story short, my wife's computer was working fine, and then I shut it off.  
> Powered back up, KDM came up fine, but every time she tried to log in, it 
> went poof.
> 
> I spent a good long while dicking around before I discovered she had run smack 
> out of disk space.  I freed some space, and voilà.
> 
> I just thought that was interesting.  I've seen that kind of thing before, but 
> in this age of huge hard drives, that idea wasn't remotely at the top of my 
> list.

I think it depends on how much disk space you have.  If you have
absolutely none (or accidentally write protect critical directories), it
seems to be able to detect that.  It's probably when you have very
little that it has strange failures.

Matthew Flaschen