Re: [orca-list] A very strange Debian issue?

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

The login problem is definitely a symptom of the problem with the space 
on the device. A graphical interface login will fail if it can't write 
to disk but a character console login will succeed. So that is a dead 
give away.

You say you don't think your disk is full. You're not sure? Are you sure 
your root partition isn't full even if the whole disk isn't?

I believe a bad hard drive can cause these symptoms by causing the 
kernel to remount a partition in read-only mode. So the root partition 
is mounted read-only which means bash cannot create temporary files in /tmp.

On 12/3/18 3:12 PM, Tim via orca-list wrote:> Hello also I thought I 
would ask here for anybody using a Debian, I'm
> having a very weird issue, I don't think my hard disk space is full, but
> whenever I turn on my machine, it gets me all the way to the login
> prompt where it says Debian 9 gnu / Minix tty1, I enter my username and
> password, Press login, nothing happens, it says incorrect. But whenever
> I called kontrol F1 or F2 and go to an actual console, and proceed to
> log in there with the same credentials, it works, however, whenever I
> for example change directory because I'm trying to enable auto log-in, 2
> / USR / light DM or something of that nature I get bash, cannot create
> here in temp directory, no space left on device. Not sure why this is,
> also, I don't exactly know how to fix the initial login issue, because I
> do have a USB image of Debian, which is what I installed this off of,
> but I pressed s4 speech at boot up, so of course it brought me to the
> initial install, I'm not sure if there's a way to actually boot into the
> live image of Debian with speech, and access or mount my partitions, so
> that I can enable auto log-in. Anybody had any weird issues like this?
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