An interesting X11 problem/solution...

[Knapp]

I have run out  of disk space 2 times this year and it does cause very
odd behavior and I have never gotten a warning. I now use Kdiskfree
one time a week to check to make sure nothing is in the red. Just
because your disk is huge does not mean that your partions are,
especially if you dual boot with windows.
Douglas

On 3/9/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
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