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

[Hannes Coetzee]

"Error: No Space Left On Device" will almost always mean that /tmp/ is full in my experience. If you can't make space in the root partition then another option is to mount a loopback FS on /tmp until you have cleared the needed space. As Frans said, clear out some old stuff.

> 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
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> Vincent wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 8.04 installed onto this partition, so now I have two 8.04's
>> installed.
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> Any help with my problem, will, believe me, be really appreciated.
>> Vincent
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