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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Julian Hall wrote: > Hi All, > > Login window for KDE. Enter password, screen goes blank, then the > password entry comes up again. Password *is* correct. > > Only clue I an think of is that yesterday Thunderbird said something > about being unable to write to a temporary file. Could it be a disk > space issue? > > Kind regards, > > Julian Hi All, Many thanks for the advice and suggestions :) Robin, thanks for the timely reminder to check the obvious, but no it wasn't caps lock (for once :)) In a nutshell it was diskspace. /dev/hda8 (mounted as /) was at 100% which looked ever so slightly unhealthy. Partly (probably all :)) my fault. When I download source packages I mv the package to /usr/src and unpack and and install them from there. However I was not removing the original *.deb or *.gz etc. They built up over time, not massively but enough that deleting them got me 9% space back. Still not great and I need to figure out ways to cut back the size of the current installation. I tried 'apt-get clean' as Simon suggested, but that didn't seem to free any space - no doubt because I don't use a single partition - I mount / and /home separately - and I know Simon you said it worked on single partition systems Anyway, thank you all, now back up and running. On a final note, Windows always sends up a warning popup when diskspace is getting low. Is there any application to do that within Linux? Kind regards, Julian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFEbYRjs/5IBdCO1ERAi2TAJ954EU8khTEBj9aesKPK7hSLizg3wCgnrno Udx2sCIaZqxG34FB71nKJFI= =Ulbp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html