07-23-2019, 02:46 PM
[member=9493]rawmeat[/member] ,
First, you shouldn't post screenshots using Dropbox. Revisit the posting guidelines to see how to include images to your forum postings.
Secondly, I have a friend who had a booting loop with their PC. The PC would get to a login screen. When typing in the password, the display would go black and then return to the login screen. Upon researching the issue, I deduced the problem was due to lack of free space. When I got to his PC, that was confirmed. At the login screen, I used Ctrl-Alt-F1 or F2 or F3 to get to a command line. I logged in using his username and password. Then from the command line, I typed in the following:
From there I could see that the root (ie. "/") partition was 100% used. His PC only came with 32GB of storage. So I typed in "sudo apt autoremove" to clean up some space, mainly old kernels. That removed enough space to allow me to log into the desktop. When in the desktop, I opened up Timeshift and removed old Timeshift snapshots. I ended up with nearly 20GB of freespace and things were back to normal. I also set his PC to only hold 2 snapshots instead of the 4-5 it was saving before.
Not sure if lack of free space is your problem, but if it is, perhaps my anecdote above will be helpful.
First, you shouldn't post screenshots using Dropbox. Revisit the posting guidelines to see how to include images to your forum postings.
Secondly, I have a friend who had a booting loop with their PC. The PC would get to a login screen. When typing in the password, the display would go black and then return to the login screen. Upon researching the issue, I deduced the problem was due to lack of free space. When I got to his PC, that was confirmed. At the login screen, I used Ctrl-Alt-F1 or F2 or F3 to get to a command line. I logged in using his username and password. Then from the command line, I typed in the following:
Code:
df -hFrom there I could see that the root (ie. "/") partition was 100% used. His PC only came with 32GB of storage. So I typed in "sudo apt autoremove" to clean up some space, mainly old kernels. That removed enough space to allow me to log into the desktop. When in the desktop, I opened up Timeshift and removed old Timeshift snapshots. I ended up with nearly 20GB of freespace and things were back to normal. I also set his PC to only hold 2 snapshots instead of the 4-5 it was saving before.
Not sure if lack of free space is your problem, but if it is, perhaps my anecdote above will be helpful.
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