Ran out of memory and can't access synaptic package manager in Linux mint 8 Helena
Last night I tried to install a game called Nexuiz on my Eee PC 900a running Linux Mint 8 Helena and ended up using all available memory. I got a message that said it failed to install due to lack of memory space. Now when I try to go into the synaptic package manager I get a message that says "unable to copy the users Xauthorization file". I also get this message when I try to uninstall anything. Also, now even though I can go to web sites, any videos won't load. I am very new to Linux and don't know how to delete the "Nexuiz" data or even where to find it! My computer has 3.5G memory with 122.2mb available. Kernel Linux 2.6.31-14-generic Gnome 2.28.1 Please help me find and remove the unwanted "Nexuiz" file. Thanks John M koldfyre360@live.com
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It is possible you have run out of disk space. Please post the output of df -h which will tell us how much space is left. You can easily free up some space by removing the packages for your installed software (this does not remove the software, only the packages that were used to install it, and these are no longer required). The command to do this is sudo apt-get clean Once you have your computer working again, you need to clean up your files and/or reorganise your filesystem. Welcome to LQ! |
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It's a pity you did not do the df -h first, because now we'll never know just how short of memory you were, or how much apt-get clean released for you. Quote:
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