Take out your detective hat, and work through what the system suggests ;) "out of disk space or that your home dir could not be opened for writing"
As Michele suggested, I'd boot from a liveCD, and mount the home partition on your internal HDD to /mnt (or similar). If it doesn't mount, run "tail /var/log/kern.log" to diagnose why. If mounted, run "df -h" and look at disk usage on /mnt, where your home partition is mounted. If the diskspace looks acceptable, then run "touch /mnt/home/foo" if there's a problem writing to the disk, this command will spew out an error message. If it doesn't run "rm /mnt/home" to remove the file. Let us know what happens with the above suggestions, unless anyone else as an elegant solution? Cheers, Jon p.s. alternatively, bring the drive with you next meet, and I'll bring a box to boot it onto ;) --we'll get it sorted. On 26/05/10 12:12, Michele Mor wrote: > Hi Richard. > I would use a LiveCd (ubuntu or anything else) and maybe copy some data > off your home directory. > It could be that the backup created big temp files on your HD and filled > all the available space. > > But I'm not expert, so probably you better wait suggestions from other > people. > > Michele > > big problem,need some help i am running a dual boot win/ubuntu, when > i boot ubuntu and try to sign in this is the message on screen > > gdm could not write to your authorisation file this could mean that > you are out of disk space or that your home dir could not be opened > for writing,in any case it is not possible you log in.please contact > your administrator, i need a administrater > how do i get it up and running the only thing that i might have > caused this was when i last used it, i was trying to find out how to > do a backup of the files on it, any help to get me up and running > would be much appreciated > regards richard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get a free e-mail account with Hotmail. Sign-up now. > <http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro -- All postal correspondence to: Positive House, 24 Broadway, London. W13 0SU The Positive Internet Company Limited is registered in England and Wales. Registered company number: 3673639. VAT no: 726 7072 28. Registered office: Northside House, Mount Pleasant, Barnet, Herts, EN4 9EE. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
