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[Nigel Ridley]

On 07/10/2010 12:29 PM, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> 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
>


OK! I managed it from the cmd line:

sudo rm -r /home/username/.thumbnails

I did it for all the users on the laptop and now we can log in :-)
Then I told them to get some 'housekeeping' done!!

Nigel