unable to run synaptic

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 19:46, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> >> > Yesterday I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04, and today I am unable to
> run
> >> >> > synaptic ! I get a window with the message:
> >> >> > "failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic  as root, unable to copy the
> users
> >> >> > Xauthorization file"
> >> OK. One more:
> >> $ df
> > kjetil at familien:~$ df
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda1             18544460  18141016         0 100% /
>
> NoOp for the win!
>
> See that first line?  Your root (base level, not user root) partition is
> full.
> 17 gig seems like a lot - you must have some stuff hanging around
> there somewhere you can delete.


I installed almost ALL the ubuntu games for my daughters!


> Post back if you need help finding
> it.
>
> Brian
>

Thanks! I already learned about
popcon-largest-unused

from another thread today!

kjetil

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