Sounds like you have a major disk or installation problem.  Try booting
from the CDROM disk and choose the rescue option.  Pay attention to the
screen that searches your disk and mounts any installed system
partitions.  Does that correctly mount all your existing partitions?  If
that fails, you could try and troubleshoot further.  However, since you
are a new user, I would just re-install from CDROM and try again.

If you get into the rescue mode, type "df" at the prompt and look at the
Use column.  Are any of your partitions 100% full?  You can have a huge
amount of disk space, but if you have a small partition defined on the
disk, it can fill up.

You don't happen to be running multiple linux versions on the same PC?
I've had problems in the past doing this, where the partitions are
labeled and /etc/fstab mounts the partitions by label instead of device
name.  Somehow two different linux distribution installers named two
different partitions with the same name.  That will cause problems.


Chris


On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 11:09 -0300, Pedro Ferreira wrote:
> 
> 
> Dylan Knight Rogers <[log in to unmask]> escreveu: 
>         Check in /var/log/gdm/:0.log for errors, which are labeled
>         with 'EE'.
>         Execute this in a terminal:
>         
>         cat /var/log/gdm/:0.log > gdmlog
>         
>         When I try that, my answer is 
>          
>         -bash: cat: command not found .
>          
>         The same thing happens even for "ls", so I cannot see the
>         contents of any folder. I tried that cat command on the
>         security terminal and on that "ctrl+alt+ f2" terminal. 
>         
>         And post the contents of 'gdmlog' here.
>         
>         -- 
>         Dylan Knight Rogers
>         
> 
> 
> 
> 
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