Can't log into Ubuntu

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 4 07:57:05 UTC 2012


I have started a new thread in order to split it from the previous
hijacked thread.

On 4 July 2012 04:40, Nick Bikkal <29.whitesnake at gmail.com> wrote:
> Colin,
>
> This is a copy and paste.
>
> What do you mean "it seems to have cleaned up memory"?
>
> I have loads of memory and disk space. It's not a problem. I believe I need
> to learn how to work with memory so I don't have these problems again.
> You should not have to do anything with memory.  Was it disk space you
> ran out of?  If so then what was it that consumed the space?
>
> Colin
>
> I'm re-writing this. I lost everything a few minutes ago – again. I believe
> there's a problem with Thunderbird. It was creating problems the first time
> around also. I was told to try cleaning memory. In the boot up process I
> clicked on an option where I could delete broken files, I think it was. It
> then freed some memory. This computer has 4 Gb of memory so it's not a
> problem. 100S of Gb of free disk space. I have a dual boot on this computer
> with Windows XP.
> In the previous attempt to write and send out this message I was given
> several messages that Thunderbird couldn't save in temp storage. I'm writing
> this on LibreOffice...just in case. I'm also waiting for some message to
> appear again on Thunderbird to include it below.
> I got two messages on LibreOffice as I work on it:
> First: “There is no space left on device
> /home/nickbikkal/.config/libreoffice/3/user/backup/untitled_0.odt”
> Second” “LibreOffice could not save important internal information due to
> insufficient free disk space at the following location:
> /home/nickbikkal/.config/libreoffice/3/user/backup
> You will not be able to conrinue working with LibreOffice without allocating
> more free disk space at that location.
> Press the 'Retry' button after you have allocated more free disk space to
> retry saving the data.'
> I closed Thunderbird and was able to save. In my original problem I also had
> Thunderbird open. That's when I lost my pin settings on GE.
> I'm hoping you get this.

>From the messages you have obviously run out of space in the partition
containing your Ubuntu /home directories.  If you open a terminal and
type
df
It will show the space used and that available in each partition.

Colin




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