[ubuntu-za] ERROR REPORT: NO SPACE LEFT ON DEVICE - 8.04.1

[frans]

It seem to me like you might have some temporary files on that 
partition,  browse to the media/disk1 mount and see what it's used for,
It's possible that it can be were your backups go, but also it could be 
that your var folder resides there, in which case you can browes to
var/cache/apt/archives and remove all the .deb files there

Vincent wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I got an error report saying "GDM could not write a new authorization
> entry to disk. Possibly out of diskspace. Error: No Space Left On Device."
> It then asks me to login. I have no idea what to login with, tried my
> name, didn't work. Also asks for a password, this I assume is the same
> one I use at startup?
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> My disk partitions are as follows:
> Partition   Size      Description   Mounted On        Used      Avail.
> ntfs         16GB       Win XP                        9.4GB    5.5GB
> sda5         10GB       Ubuntu    media/disk1         9.3GB    0GB
> sda7         42GB       Ubuntu    media/disk          2.8GB    37GB
> sda1         15GB       Ubuntu    media/disk2         9.5GB    5.5GB
> gvfs-Fuse-Deamon     Ubuntu(New)  home/vincent/gvfs   6.8GB    4.4GB
>
> The gvfs partition was free space(7GB) & when I re-installed Hardy, at 
> the disk partition stage, I changed this to a ext3 section along with 
> the other partitions allocated to Ubuntu & when asked, made it a /.This 
> may have been a mistake, not sure.
>
> 8.04 installed onto this partition, so now I have two 8.04's
> installed.
>
> On restarting, Hardy then allowed me into the original 8.04 but would
> not use Disk Usage Analyser, Error: "Could Not Detect Any Mount Point"
> comes up.
> The only way to gain access to the partitions is via the newly installed
> version on gvfs - This is how I've managed to get the above information.
> Sorry to be so long winded, but I've tried to include as much info as
> possible to give as clear a picture as possible so as not to waste your
> time.
> Is there a way to fix this without losing data? - I do have backups,
> using sbackup - However, should I need to re-partition & start again,
> how do I do a restore, as sbackup won't be on the newly installed 8.04?
>
> To answer the obvious reply of download sbackup again - I've tried
> that & it wouldn't download, saying " vendor does not support 386", this
> may be due to the two 8.04's being in conflict over the internet
> connection but my concern is having all my data on a flash drive & not
> being able to restore it.
> I cannot dial out using Hardy - It does seem to make a connection & the
> log shows that it appears to be connected, but there is a line saying
> "Warning: Could not modify etc/ppp/chap-secrets Permission Denied" - On
> going to this file, it's all been locked, cannot be accessed at all.
> Would this be the reason for not being able to use TB or Firefox?
> I hope I've been as clear as possible.
>
> Any help with my problem, will, believe me, be really appreciated.
> Vincent
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