/tmp full

[Nigel Ridley]

Running Karmic.

My wife and our 3 girls share a laptop. They treat it like their cupboards and just keep stuffing 
more and more files in it. So now nobody can log in as, after entering username/password there is 
just a thin little window error message:

Xsession: warning: unable to write to /tmp; X session may exist with an error
okay

Clicking on 'okay' takes me back to the KDE login screen.

I can use Alt Ctrl F1 and am comfortable using the cmd line but the girls have a [bad] habit of 
using spaces and illegal characters in their file and folder names. Also they have named a lot of 
them in Hebrew which just shows up as small diamonds instead of normal [Hebrew] characters.

How can I free up enough space so that we can get back into the GUI and start deleting these 
illegally named files and folders?

Nigel