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[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Saturday 10 July 2010, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> 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!!

You may also want to consider installing mc, that way you can just 
simply select those files instead of having to enter their names...

  --Reinhold