Bug 257640 - /home/someuser directory unwritable or full
Summary: /home/someuser directory unwritable or full
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kdm
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdm bugs tracker
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Reported: 2010-11-22 20:36 UTC by Dickie Bradford
Modified: 2010-11-26 23:47 UTC (History)
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Description Dickie Bradford 2010-11-22 20:36:14 UTC
Version:           4.4 (using KDE 4.4.2) 
OS:                Linux

After a power failure or system crash I regularly get the message "/home/dbradford is full or unwritable when trying to log in to kde.  I have checked the disk / partition there is 6.5 GB of free space, I do not use disk quotas.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
power failure or system crash reproduces it almost every time.  I have had to delete my .kde directory to get it be able to log in again, but this doesn't always work.

Actual Results:  
I can log back in, but the user directory still is unwriteable in some instances.


IF i can provide any additional information, logs etc, please let me know. what is needed.
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-11-24 09:09:56 UTC
my suspicion is that the file system driver is doing something weird.

log into a console session before you try to start the graphical session and do a few experiments there - creating new files, try renaming .Xauthority, .xsession-errors (also, check the home directory's and the files' access rigths and possibly acls if you use any). also, check whether you don't have some security system like selinux enabled and having it go haywire. check the various syslog files.
Comment 2 Dickie Bradford 2010-11-26 23:24:26 UTC
On 11/24/2010 3:10 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257640
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> --- Comment #1 from Oswald Buddenhagen<ossi kde org>   2010-11-24 09:09:56 ---
> my suspicion is that the file system driver is doing something weird.
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> log into a console session before you try to start the graphical session and do
> a few experiments there - creating new files, try renaming .Xauthority,
> .xsession-errors (also, check the home directory's and the files' access rigths
> and possibly acls if you use any). also, check whether you don't have some
> security system like selinux enabled and having it go haywire. check the
> various syslog files.
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I think I have narrowed the problem to a bad scsi array,  it look like 
it locked the complete /home dir, although if you use 'mount' to see the 
mounted partitions, it shows as 'rw'.  I did several tests even up to 
adding a new user and root could not create a new user dir.

very odd to say the least.

Thanks for your help and suggestions

Dickie
Comment 3 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-11-26 23:47:56 UTC
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