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 > >