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Comment on Linux error: "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fi

2010-01-10T22:00:24Z

Hi,
Thanks for the article.
I too get that error message after trying to start a previously reliable machine. The last time it ran proplerly was only a few hours ago.
The mouse fails to work, though the light is on underneath and the keyboard does nothing too, the Cap' Lock light can not be made to come on.
Hence I am not able to provide get a report of the problem.
I tried the command you recomended: chmod 1777 /tmp
- no improvement and the same error message.
Is there anythign else I could try?
Many thanks, Nat

Comment on Linux error: "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fi

2009-12-07T09:31:49Z

That was an inspiring post,

This some really great advice,

Thanks for writing about it

Comment on How to open the "Computer Management" Console in XP

2009-11-24T09:44:20Z

Cool,

Number 3 is the one for me, i feel so stupid... its so easy...

Thanks for writing about it

Comment on How to open the Event Viewer in XP

2009-11-20T21:36:18Z

Thanks for the postive comment. I really don't get to update as much as I want but I try.

Comment on How to open the Event Viewer in XP

2009-11-20T12:17:48Z

Hey, that was interesting,

Nice help..

Anyway, thanks for the post,

Keep up the good work.

Comment on How To Change FaceBook Security settings - Updated with latest FB privacy settings.

2009-10-23T18:31:03Z

I thought that I had done all of this! So I was glad that I saw this web site on a friends post and looked into it!! Thank you!!

Comment on Calibrating a laptop Battery in Vista

2009-09-14T23:10:24Z

Thanks for the comment. I updated the post to add the following. I hope this helps

Appended the following to Entry:

10. After the laptop battery is completely discharge reconnect you powersupply and turn on the laptop.
11. Once the laptop boots, login and restore your previous Battery critical action by using Control Panel > Power Options and change you plan settings for your current power scheme back to the way you had it or use the same command in step 7 as follows:
Use the following command for Setting you critical battery action to Sleep
powercfg -setdcvalueindex scheme_current sub_battery batactioncrit 1

Use the following command for Setting you critical battery action to Hibernate
powercfg -setdcvalueindex scheme_current sub_battery batactioncrit 2

Use the following command for Setting you critical battery action to Shut down
powercfg -setdcvalueindex scheme_current sub_battery batactioncrit 3

Comment on Calibrating a laptop Battery in Vista

2009-09-14T19:56:57Z

Okay, so how do I change the critical battery from ''Do nothing'' back to the way it was?

Comment on Linux error: "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fi

2009-08-19T23:57:12Z

I know you may have checked already, but due to the nature of the message how much disk space do you have on root (/) and /tmp. You can use the df -k (df -h) to find out what space is available.

Comment on Linux error: "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fi

2009-08-19T10:17:55Z

Hi i faced the above error and had changed the permissions of /tmp as root chmod 1777 /tmp but am unable to connect other users pls help me..