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Dee

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Problem with Failed to execute login command - Daedalus

Hi to all, newbie here. I hope you could help me. I have a devuan daedalus 5 with init.
I have the problem of Failed to execute login command that happened after ive rebooted (last thing i've installed was wine and I remember that I was using whatsie, basically whatsapp, and the program couldn't stragely load so i've rebooted). This issue happens with my username but with root there is no problem (with f1 i can use cinnamon, kodi or xfce4).
I cannot for some obscure reason update, upgrade or remove/reinstall slim because terminal says not enough space, despite there is couple of gb. I am really lost because this thing happened when i needed the pc the most (preparing for an exam in elettronica were pspice windows program is needed).
If you guide me what commands I could type for investigating the problem i will be very happy to do so and I would provide you a feedback.
Thank you in advance for any kind hearth who would provide me some help.
Greetings Dee.

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: Problem with Failed to execute login command - Daedalus

Start with df -h which will show your mounted partitions with their size and amount used. Pay particular attention to the percentage used on your root filesystem. If it goes beyond 95% you're likely to have problems. If anything is too full, find some big files to delete.

You might run apt-cache autoclean to get rid of old deb packages in /var/cache/apt/archives or even apt-cache clean to get rid of all the deb packages in that directory. Note that this will not uninstall any programs. It just remove the .deb packages, so if you needed to reinstall something, you'd need to pull it from the repository. (i.e. the way most people install packages most of the time.)

chris2be8

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Registered: 2018-08-11

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Re: Problem with Failed to execute login command - Daedalus

df -i to see how many inodes are used in each filesystem would also be worthwhile. Although you are not very likely to run out on a new install.