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

[Vincent]

Hannes Coetzee wrote:
> "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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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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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.

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?

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?