[K12OSN] No one can log in! Advice please.

[James P. Kinney III]

Be sure to run yum clean all to dump the update cache.

If the error message is claiming  a full /home dir (which is why users
can't log in), so someone hosed the home dir by filling it up. 

for user in `ls -1 /home`
do
echo "$user `du -ks $user`"
done

will print a list of the space used by user in the /home folder.

37GB is a small drive system these days. 

It is usually a good idea to implement quotas on a multi-user system to
prevent a user from blowing up the drive space.
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 09:25 -0500, Joseph Bishay wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I hope everyone is doing well.
> 
> I got a call from one of the users of our lab that when they try to
> log in, they receive the message "GDM could not write your
> authorization file . This could mean that you are out of disk space or
> that your home directory could not be opened for writing . In any case
> it is not possible to login. Contact system administrator."   This is
> true for any user who tries to log in.
> 
> I was able to switch to a console and log and look around.  "df" shows
> me that my entire LVM drive of 37 GB is full!  I am shocked because
> the automated email that cron sends me on a daily basis showed, up
> until last week, that over 50% was free.  Now it's all used.
> 
> Spent some time using fancy find/ls/du commands and I was able to free
> up a couple of MB of space.  But something doesn't add up.  The sum
> total of all the files isn't 37 GB.  I rebooted into single user, blew
> away tmp, emptied caches and trash files -- nothing is making a dent.
> /Var is taking up about 200 MB (I know that's a common culprit).
> 
> What else could it be?  Could the drives me reporting the wrong file,
> or are there other areas I should look in to remove files?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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