Request for explanation of error message

[Mike Marchywka]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 04:35:18PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 04:14 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > > The first one is simple enough.  It might have been because your disk
> > > is full, in which case it's a symptom not a cause.  What are the
> > > permissions on these files?  Run this command:
> > > 
> > >    ls -ald /tmp /tmp/.tX0-lock
> > > 
> > > and let us know the results. 
> > 
> > "
> > bret at bret-MD34045-2521:~$ ls -ald /tmp /tmp/.tX0-lock
> > ls: cannot access '/tmp/.tX0-lock': No such file or directory
> > drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4096 Jul 29 03:57 /tmp
> 
> This looks correct.  That most likely means that this error is a
> symptom of your disk being full, and not the cause of the problem.


Oh, I thought he got that before the disk filled up again :)
The rotated logs were all small, back around the 22nd there
was a big one- normal entries were probably a dozen lines followed
by the presumed loop. 


> 
> After you have cleared out space on your disk, please keep an eye on
> the size of the /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log file.  If it continues to
> grow, send along the last 50 or so lines of output from that file and
> we'll see what it has to say.
> 
> Also, you did show you're using an 18.04.2 based system, but if you're
> using lightdm it won't be out-of-the-box vanilla Ubuntu.  I didn't see
> the output of the "lsb_release -a" command which would tell us (I
> think) if you're using a spin or similar.
> 
> What distribution did you actually install here?
> 
> 
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