You have been subscribed to a public bug: When the root filesystem is full, LightDM and GDM loop back to themselves after a couple of seconds instead of starting the main desktop.
Ideally the user should be warned that it is not going to be possible to proceed, and what they need to do in order to allow login to proceed (make space available on the root partition, rather than their home partition). ** Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Importance: High Assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) Status: Triaged -- Session fails to start when root system full https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873368 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs