The symptom is that at the login screen I was unable to login as myself, but I could log in as other users or as root.<\/p>\n
The problem turned out to be that the root partition (“\/”) was full. To solve the problem I logged in as root and went to \/var\/log\/journal\/257adc6a3c2544e98cae7eeea8f97e6e and removed the files in the journal.<\/p>\n
After rebooting the machine I was again able to login as myself. I noticed that Dropbox, which had been complaining that it was not able to start, is now able to start again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The symptom is that at the login screen I was unable to login as myself, but I could log in as other users or as root. The problem turned out to be that the root partition (“\/”) was full. To solve the problem I logged in as root and went to \/var\/log\/journal\/257adc6a3c2544e98cae7eeea8f97e6e and removed the … Continue reading “I could not log in as myself but could log in as root on Fedora 28. Dropbox failed to start.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}