gnome login failing repeatedly

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:38 AM -0400 6/14/06, Joe Smith wrote:
>johannes bauer wrote:
>> Since my FC5 installation a few weeks ago I have a curious problem.
>> The machine boots up nicely, I get the blue log-in screen, I type
>> username and password, my account comes up, but just when I should be
>> ready to use it, the screen goes blank (sometimes displaying some
>> messages for 1/2 a second), and the machine jumps back to the blue
>> X-window log-in screen, asking me again to log in.  Only after the
>> second, third, fourth, of fifth log-in try it works, and I then can
>> use my account normally. ...
>
>Before you investigate the really interesting possibilities ;-) check
>that you have plenty of free disk space, especially under /tmp. The vast
>majority of the time I find a Linux system doing weird things, it's
>simply because something's run out of space and can't create a file or a
>socket and doesn't gracefully fail ("This should never happen...").
>
>FC5 uses some obscene amounts of disk space on the root filesystem ;-\

If there's significantly more than 10 percent free space (10% is reserved
for root to get out of trouble with), the next thing I'd try is to create a
new user and see if that user has any trouble.  Do this from runlevel 3
(get there by editing the kernel command line in grub -- press the ANY key
while booting and follow the instructions).
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