Bug 374688

Summary: Let KDM check whether enough space is available or not and have it show an error message if nessecary
Product: kdm Reporter: kono93 <kochnorman>
Component: generalAssignee: kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description kono93 2017-01-07 12:28:15 UTC
I've encountered a problem when my HDD was full in such a way that I could not login anymore. After pressing enter at the login-screen, there was a black screen for about a second and then the login-screen again.

It turned out, after quite a lot of searching, that was due to my HDD, which was full.

This is something that can easily be checked at every login and which may help quite a lot in debugging such errors. So, I suggest, if the hard disk has less than, let's say, 2MB of free space whilst at the logon-screen, there should be an error-message saying this.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2017-01-09 22:29:23 UTC
Are you using kdm or sddm as the login manager?
Comment 2 kono93 2017-01-09 22:31:14 UTC
I'm using kdm as login-manager.
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2017-01-09 22:56:23 UTC
kdm is no longer maintained, so this check will not be added.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 81653 ***