cannot login

[Chris]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 18:32 +0100, david wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've had a few problems with logging in over the last day or two.
> The problem previously has been a .ICEauthority problem which I can deal
> with. This evening a new problem has appeared. I get a message along the
> lines of:
> Cannot open some file to write to, this may mean your home folder is
> full or there is some other problem. Either way I cannot login. Please
> contact your sys admin.
> 
> I cannot login using a failsafe terminal or any other of the options
> available.
> I am stuck.
> Any ideas???
> 
> thankyou
> 
> David

CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to the console.  Login then search for
files/directories owned by root in your home directory.

Maybe:
~ $ find . -uid 0

or something similar...

Assuming it is a permission problem of some sort (which appears to be a
problem when using sudo to do everything).

-- 
// Chris