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

[Hannes Coetzee]

Hi Vincent

The lock file in the archives directory is supposed to be there. It 
prevents multiple programs from installing things simultaneously. You 
can also clean the apt cache with sudo apt-get clean or sudo aptitude 
clean . This will remove the .deb files for you. sudo du-sh /* will show 
you the size of the directories and you should be able to figure out 
from there what's taking up the space.

Reading your first post - ls -l /etc/ppp/chap-secrets shows "-rw-rw---- 
1 root root 136 2008-12-18 23:05 /etc/ppp/chap-secrets" on my box. You 
need to use sudo/gksudo/kdesudo (depending on how you connect to be able 
to get online. ifconfig should also show ppp0 as an active device when 
you are connected. If it does not show up when you are using dialup 
something is wrong. When 8.04 first arrived there was a problem with 
Firefox not being able to connect when using dialup. I'm not sure it has 
been fixed but the problem seems to be in /etc/hosts. If you can ping 
google when you are connected but not use Firefox then add 127.0.0.1 
localhost on a separate line in /etc/hosts. Networkmanager gives endless 
problems with dialup on 8.04 and I suggest you don't use it. By default 
Networkmanager tries to route internet through eth0 even if you use 
dialup. Another way around this is to setup eth0 with a static IP 
address. Let us know if you make progress.

Regards
Hannes
> Hannes Coetzee wrote:
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>> "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.
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>>> 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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>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> 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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> I've already tried that guy's, there is a lock file almost in the center 
> of the archive file with a lock icon above it & I suspect this is 
> locking the entire archive file, as all deb files are owned by root now 
> & won't let me in - Tried with "clean /var/log" & also going in & 
> removing to Trash, but no joy.
> Var isn't very big though...not even +/- 500MB, which is nowhere near 
> the 9.3GB used up on disk 1.
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> It would seem almost as if Hardy has gone into survival mode & has shut 
> down or locked all or most of the files - Have I been watching too many 
> movies?
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> I changed the grub file because of these problems, to boot xp & it did 
> this initially, but now it wants to start recovery mode on boot up, this 
> without me changing anything?
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