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Re: Unable to log on

From: Derek Broughton <news(at)pointerstop.ca>
Date: Sat Aug 18 2007 - 10:35:44 EDT


Jonathan Kaye wrote:

> Mike Leech wrote:
> 

>> I am unable to log on to Ubuntu desktop.
...
>> My guess is that I have failed to remove old backup files and that my my
>> HD is filled.
>>
>> Can someone help.
>>
> You can boot up with a Live CD such as Knoppix, which doesn't depend on
> your HD and do the clean up from there. Maybe Ubuntu's live CD works too
> but I haven't tried it. 

Of _course_ it works :-)

But much simpler would just be to boot into single-user mode - there should be an entry in the grub menu - and do it there. It _should_ still be possible to do it as root.

-- 
derek


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