Downloaded latest upgrades and now cant boot
Hi all
I hadnt downloaded the new upgrades for a while so last night i downloaded the backlog of 70 ish after which when i booted up this morning I get this error "x session: unable to write to tmp; xsession may exit with error" which of course it does!! and i get back to the login screen - the only way out of the loop is to boot to the command line. I have a NVidia card and am running fiesty btw. I have tried changing the nvidia driver in xorg.conf but that doesnt work so i dont think its the video driver. I am a relative newby and havnt got a clue what went wrong or WHY ? i thought this didnt happen on Linux? thanks for any help Mike |
Sounds like a (disk) space issue - what does "df -hT" show (do it from the console session) ???
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File system size used avail Use% Varrun tmpfs 506M 216k 506M 1% Varlock tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% Procbususb tmpfs 506M 124k 506M 1% udev tmpfs 506M 124k 506M 1% devshm tmpfs 506m 0 506m 0% lrm tmpfs 506m 33M 473M 7% /dev/sda3 ext3 175G 120G 49G 72% Home thanks again Mike |
That cannot be the entire listing.
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tried it again but got the same result -- does this mean i'm in deep doodoo? mike |
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df -hT should give output something like this: Code:
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on You do not, yet you can get to a command line (for which you must have root mounted!). So please try df -hT again, and post all the output. If you still get nowhere, you'll probably have to reinstall, but make very sure you do not reformat your home partition. If you have important data on your home partition, I'd recommend you boot from a live CD, and copy your home files to an external disk before you start touching anything. |
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should i try deleting stuff? |
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For further insight, please click on "mpooley", find more posts by mpooley, and read them. Bye for now. |
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I assume you are saying find out for yourself ? |
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