On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 21:29 +0100, Patrick O'Connor wrote:
> Got a weird one here, maybe someone on the list can help me out.
> A friend is running unbutu gutsy gibbon and for some reason cannot bring up
> the gnome terminal, all he's getting is a green rectangular cursor that he
> can type in but no commands are processed.
> Does anyone know what could be the problem, google hasn't been any help.
>> Thanks,
> Patrick
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Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 this should give you the command line, log in.
type in df -h this will give you what space is free/used on the hard
drive. GNOME(X11?) will not start if there is not enough free space, not
sure how much I don't think it is much.
Hopefully this helps.
Philip
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