Re: Solved (Was: Strange problem with X)
Liam Proven <[email protected]>
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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. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884