[SOLVED] System Recovery

All,

I started threads:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...em-4175599006/

and

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...or-4175597308/

The mysql-socket-error thread was causing my HD to go full, thus the 2nd HD thread and eventually put me in disk full and then recovery.

However nothing I've done recovers me!

What I've tried are:

1. Recovery mode + networking (makes HD r/w), and file deletes,
2. Attempted LiveDVD, for chroot, but LiveDVD will not boot,
3. Removed drive to external HD cabinet and from Laptop deleted 32GB from HD,

After all that I still get the lnusertemp disk full message when I attemp to login. System boots to that point now, where login screen comes up and then get the error after properly entering my UID/PWD combo.

I'm on Kubuntu 14.04 LTS on all machines, including this server.

Guessing swap is full or corrupted, but never had to clean or reformat swap. Do y'all have any other ideas on this?

Any suggestions?

Cheers!

TBNK

Very unlikely to be swap - maybe /tmp. Run these post the output

swapon -s
df -hT

Originally Posted by syg00 Very unlikely to be swap - maybe /tmp. Run these post the output swapon -s df -hT

syg00,

Here are the answers

swapon -s
Filename          Type          Size         Used          Priority
/dev/sda5         partition     1044476      0             -1

df -hT
Filesystem    Type      Size    Used    Avail    Use%   Mounted on
udev          devtmpfs  3.9G    4.0K    3.9G       1%   /dev
tmpfs         tmpfs     792M    932K    791M       1%   /run
/dev/sda1     ext4       75G     22G     47G      32%   /
none          tmpfs     4.0K       0    4.0K       0%   /sys/fs/cgroup
none          tmpfs     5.0M       0    5.0M       0%   /run/lock
none          tmpfs     3.9G       0    3.9G       0%   /run/shm
none          tmpfs     100M       0    100M       0%   /run/user
/dev/sdb1     ext4      2.7T     73M    2,2T       1%   /mnt/3T

From these I see absolutely nothing that should be giving me "disk full" errors.

The actual error I get, from a popup screen in the upper left corner of the screen, is:

Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?), Check your installation.

But I deleted all /tmp and the tmpfs all shown above are 0-1% so should not be the problem.

Any ideas based on what's shown and the error msg?

Cheers!

TBNK

All,

Remember I tried to boot from the LiveDVD and it halts half way through, because of these errors. Know the LiveDVD is good as I just used it 3 months back to rebuild this laptop!

Cheers!

TBNK

if that LiveDVD is what you are relaying on to get you where you need to be, have you just tired to trouble shoot that first? in the form of creating a USB Stick live boot -- they are rewriteable

Originally Posted by BW-userx if that LiveDVD is what you are relaying on to get you where you need to be, have you just tired to trouble shoot that first? in the form of creating a USB Stick live boot -- they are rewriteable

BW-userx,

No I listed everything I've tried and the only way I was able to come from /dev/sda1 @ 99% was via the external HD enclosure, where I deleted the 32G that is now showing from the df -hT I posted previously.

I'm assuming, but maybe not correctly, that the system wrote either a file or a flag somewhere, which is now the reason for the error, but where, as you can see there is nothing showing anything close to "disk full"!

I also know that the LiveDVD creates a temp ramfs, and wondering if RAM is now having issues. I get no errors indicating a RAM problem however.

Cheers!

TBNK

All,

Would like a solution on this by tomorrow, but have to work. If no solution, then I'll have to pull the 80GB HD, copy all pertinent info off and do a fresh install.

I hate fresh installs, because it takes 3 weeks of constant running of bash scripts to get everything re-installed, running, configured and totally in the right places on the computer and desktop!

The first bash script I run, to install all the basics on a box take a min of 48 hours to run. Yup that much stuff on my servers.

Cheers!

TBNK

All,

I'm recovered and even avoided all the hours of loading stuff onto the computer. I had a desktop fail, as chipset started getting squirrely and mouse quit working, so it had a 1.0TB HD and as development desktop has 80+% of what I need for the server, so installed that HD to my server and running again. Now just downloading the server stuff needed and checking on what else is missing.

I'm leaving this open, however, because the guru's should already know and have an answer for this problem and if not this should be added as a bug for the "CORE" guys to address and fix.

Cheers!

TBNK