Unable to log on

[NoOp]

On 08/17/2007 05:34 PM, Matthew Voss wrote:
> I had the exact same problem. Is your disk full? That was my problem. It
> could also be that your home folders are not owned by you. Use chown to
> correct this problem. You will be able to log in in terminal using
> Ctrl+Alt+F6.
> Goo

Sbackup seems to be going around... I'd forgotten that I'd installed it
on my son's computer & for the past several months it's apparently been
happily storing backup files in /var/backup. Last night it managed to
fill the entire disk. So, thinking that I could resolve the problem, I
booted into Knoppix, deleted some about 1Gb of unnecessary files & tried
rebooting. The system did an fschk and now halts on 'bad block or
duplicate block in use', and after awhile it continues to the dreaded
'read only mode, type Control-D or enter root password' prompt.

I can log in as root, but what to do next?

Also; the system is dual boot & I can boot windows (or as I mentioned
knoppix) and see that the drive is intact, so I'm thinking that when I
first deleted files with knoppix I changed some permissions on the drive.