On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Pedro Ferreira wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would really appreciate some help here. I am a starter at linux and I
>> installed SL 4.5 on my pc. After some weeks it worked fine (besides I
>> haven't registered it on redhat.com),
>
> There is no need to register at redhat.com if you are runing Scientific
> Linux.  Except for their source code, which anyone can get from their
> ftp site, they are not associated with Scientific Linux in any way.

And you should not be able to register it at redhat.com because you do not 
have a redhat subscription.

>
>> and yesterday  when I tryed to log
>> in GNOME a message appeader saying that my session lasted less than 10
>> seconds and one of 2 things should be happening: or I am out of disk
>> space (which I am NOT), or something about saving my last session. The
>> result is that I can't log in, only on security mode (terminal only),
>> but as long as I don't know what to do, I can't fix it.
>> Does anybody know what is happenning?
>
> It sounds like you cannot log into your home area for some reason.  What
> that reason is ... we'll have to figure out.
>
> Is your home area on a network disk of some type?  Or is it on the disk
> in your computer?
>
> If it is on your computer, is your home area on it's own partition?

You should try to login in via a "text window".  Use ctrl-alt-f2 to switch 
to a text window and login in there.  This will bypass GNOME completely.

-Connie Sieh
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> Troy
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