Re: ooops

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> It's like Adam said: an error log file has likely filled up your hard
> drive.  Use the 'df' comand to see how much of your drive is being
> used.  If you see 100% then you'll need to seek and destroy this file.
> It will likely be in your home directory (/home/$USERNAME).  When you
> boot linux as single you are automatically logged in as root.  Just go
> ahead and cd to /home/$USERNAME ($USERNAME is whatever the name of 
your
> user account is...) and type 'ls -als'.  This will show you all the
> files in the directory as well as their sizes.  Most error log files
> should be pretty small (DEFINITELY less than 1 MB).  The offending 
file
> should stick out like a sore thumb.  If the files seem to go by to 
fast
> you can use SHIFT+PAGE UP to scroll back up the terminal or you can 
use
> the wonderful pipe: ls -als | less, which will pipe the output from ls
> into a convenient scrolling buffer.

It might be a good idea to check in /var/log and /etc/xdm or /etc/gdm 
as well for swollen log files.