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.

This is sometimes problematic, as certain daemons may print errors to
the generic tty screen in both bash and zsh (even within a 'screen'
session), which obfuscates what you're typing.

Your idea is fine, but I think he should move into the failsafe
terminal, instead, which does not require a full GNOME, only gdm, to
access.

On 11/21/07, Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
> >
> > Troy
> >
> >
>


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