Re: Solved (Was: Strange problem with X)

Liam Proven <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
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On 3 August 2012 18:21, Z.B. <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem was trivial: comparing both installations I've noticed, that
> "original", being on smaller HDD, meanwhile ran out of space. Well, almost:
> there was enough free space to not make the system complaining, but it
> seems, that X Window needed a little more.
>
> Still it doesn't explain, why it needn't that much, when starting it as root
> user.

Ordinary users can be configured to have a disk usage quota, above
which they cannot go, to prevent filling up the filesystem. Root does
not have this limit. Perhaps a startup logfile would have taken you
over it & thus creation (or extra data being appended) was prevented,
making startup fail.


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