not able to login to 7.04

[dibl]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

You're back to the endlessly-looping login?

I wouldn't blame you for reinstalling, but it would be nice to know what to do if it happens again. What video driver were you using?

[ponygirldefiance]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

i hope i got this right i had to go through windows to get it. it has been so long since i have looked things up in windows.

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU

[dibl]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

OK -- it's an integrated Nvidia chip.

So, if you try to boot normally, you get the endlessly looping login, but you can boot "Recovery Mode" and log in that way. Is that correct?

[ponygirldefiance]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

yes thats correct. is there any hope?

[dibl]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

Is there any chance that your /home directory has gotten "filled up"? In other words, if you put /home its own partition, could it be full?

From your login prompt, you can do cd /home to get to the home directory, then you can enter

df -h

to see.

[ponygirldefiance]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

it is showing that my root is over full. at 7.4G there is nothing on there though but updates and a few applications, along with a game or two.

how much room should you give a root partition? i set it up with 8 GIG the home i showing 1 %

does this make sense why it filled up so fast?

ok how do we fix this? i have 133GIG available on the home partition.

[dibl]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

it is showing that my root is over full

Bingo! I should have thought of that earlier.

7GB is plenty of space, if you have a separate /home partition. But it is possible to fill it up with the remains of package installations.

Try

sudo apt-get autoclean

and then

sudo apt-get autoremove

then restart with

sudo shutdown now -r

and see if you can log in normally.

[ponygirldefiance]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

ok i did that and i still not able to login. could i have done it wrong?

[dibl]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

Check your disk space again and let's see if there's free space or if it's still full. I was hoping it was just the package cache and related leftovers from package installations.

[ponygirldefiance]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

did that and it is still showing 7.4 GIG used of 7.0 that was available and its still 100% used.

[dibl]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

OK, so it wasn't package junk. Do you suppose it could be "trash"? If you can cd to the root directory, then

cd .trash

then do

sudo rm -R ~/.Trash/*

maybe something will happen.

[ponygirldefiance]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

i did the cd .trash

and it said no such file or directory

the second one i could not make out the last symbol for that command

sudo rm -R ~/.trash/?

[dibl]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

Did you get to the root director "/"? I think you have to be there before you can see the hidden folder .trash.

So that command was "sudo rm -R ~/.Trash/*", issued from the root directory.

Here's another thing Mr. Google just turned up:

sudo du -sh /*

This will list your disk usage by directories. I just ran it on mine -- here's what it says:

dibl@kgutsy:/$ sudo du -sh /*
5.6M /bin
18M /boot
0 /cdrom
396K /dev
9.3M /etc
32G /home
0 /initrd
0 /initrd.img
158M /lib
3.1M /lib32
0 /lib64

[ponygirldefiance]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

Did you get to the root director "/"? I think you have to be there before you can see the hidden folder .trash.

So that command was "sudo rm -R ~/.Trash/*", issued from the root directory.

Here's another thing Mr. Google just turned up:

sudo du -sh /*

This will list your disk usage by directories. I just ran it on mine -- here's what it says:

dibl@kgutsy:/$ sudo du -sh /*
5.6M /bin
18M /boot
0 /cdrom
396K /dev
9.3M /etc
32G /home
0 /initrd
0 /initrd.img
158M /lib
3.1M /lib32
0 /lib64

where you have dibl@kgutsy
i have this root@The-Obedient-Computer:~#

is this where you wanted me?

i tried everything you suggested above and its not excepting anything of those last commands.

i am getting "no such file or directory" again

i have tried this from recovery and logging into desktop under the recovery side.

[ponygirldefiance]

Re: not able to login to 7.04

can i change the partitions in qt parted in recovery part logged into desktop under the recovery side?