When the user fills up the hard drive

[Chris Wagner]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 14:43 +0000, Vassilis Pandis wrote:
> --- Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I recently got a panicked phone call from an Ubuntu user who had
> > filled the disk (disc?) up. It's partly his fault -- he ignored
> > Ubuntu's warnings that he was running out of space and kept
> > downloading, then restarted the computer. When you do this on Ubuntu,
> > you find that you can't login to GNOME. It doesn't give you any reason
> > either, just drops you back at GDM. 
> 
> 
> This is bug 35217, https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/35217
> If memory serves me well, there is at least one more unmarked duplicate on 
> Launchpad (I can't find it at the moment). https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/22842
> is also related.

Perhaps you mean https://launchpad.net/products/gdm/+bug/41170 (?).

I think there are several problems related to GDM and having a disk at
full capacity.  I've seen many reports, and most of the symptoms vary.
I don't think 41170 (reported by me) is in fact the same as 35217 (see
my comment on the report for 35217).

It may not need saying, but I'd second that this is quite important.  I
was in the same situation as Sean; a non-techie friend of mine filled up
his hard disk and couldn't log in.  I was lucky enough to have a
reasonable error message so was able to help my friend remotely, as I
knew what the problem was.