Description of problem: The error report when a filesystem is full leaves a lot to be desired. That's especially true for the root filesystem. One of the reasons why this is important, is that the X server fails to start (due to lack of space for temporary files) on reboot when there is no room on the root filesystem. Actually, this is in my experience the primary cause for X server failure on otherwise stable setups. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.0-2 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fill up the root filesystem (or really, the one where XFree86 stores its temporary files.) 2. Reboot Actual results: Boot in text-only mode. X server startup failure screen displayed after a while. It is far from obvious from the error messages that a full disk is the cause of the problem. Failure may be reported for some of the services during boot, but users will often not notice this. Expected results: System boots as usual, and GUI login is displayed - or - An error message stating clearly that the GUI cannot start due to lack of disk space, is displayed. Additional info: The same problem may possibly occur when restarting the X server without rebooting, after filling up the disk. Not sure what component this report belongs to...
reassigning to gdm
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Not actually sure what (if anything) has been done related to this recently, but I'm quite sure another review is useful -> moving to fc5.
Fedora Core 5 is no longer maintained. Is this bug still present in Fedora 8?
Hi, We no longer support Fedora Core 5 and I am currently trying to get my open bug count down to a more manageable state. I'm going to close this bug as WONTFIX. If this issue is still a concern for you, would you mind trying to reproduce on a supported version of Fedora and reopening? (this is a mass message)