Bug 374688

Summary:	Let KDM check whether enough space is available or not and have it show an error message if nessecary
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdm	Reporter:	kono93 <kochnorman>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
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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kdm is no longer maintained, so this check will not be added.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 ***