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Thanks for the suggestion, I ve looked in /var/log and deleting all logs would only free up around 15mb, but /var/log/journal folder is 2.6Gb, is this normal ?

Ok, I gave up with that - file names with brackets in the title arent recognised, i get a syntax error. I the end I used my Android phone to create a bootable sdcard. I used that and deleted the...

Still no luck. Can anyone tell me the correct command to delete a file from the desktop? I really don't wanna risk deleting everything. Would it be
rm /home/username/Desktop/filename ?

Thanks i used the find command then I took the plunge and used rm to remove all deluge files I could find, still wont boot, I ll try this in case I missed any.

I removed the torrent client in recovery but I still have the problem. I also deleted the file from my hard drive before I had the problem, so its already not in the place where the torrent expects...

Lol, stupid me getting boot and root partitions confused !

That's how deluge and transmission work in my experience - if you delete the file but don't remove it from the torrent client the space is still used, almost as though they has some sort of cache or...

Thanks for the reply.

Yes I realise I m up against reserved space, I m looking for advice on how to delete from command line, I'll try var/log but I use ubuntu tweaks janitor after every update. ...

Thanks for your response.

The system isn't behaving badly, it was deluge and me that behaved badly.

I'm aware of the root partition and mine is 500mb, I always thought it was for situations...

I recently used deluge to download a torrent but forgot to set the location as a USB drive so my hard drive had 0bytes remaining, I deleted the file and used force quit to kill deluge as it was...

I m getting this problem again and running fsck doesn't help, it never prompts me to type y it just lists the blocks and says they're clean but nothing I do will make it boot

OMG, suddenly its gone to the login screen and its booted, after multiple attempts over the last 24+ hours, I haven't even done anything to it since yesterday afternoon, I just turned it on and after...

Not sure that thread will help me as pretty use I'm not using wayland

Thanks very much for the reply and the info, at least I know I m not the only one.

I ve spent the whole day trying to fix it, please, please can someone offer any advice ?

I ve run fcsk there were errors, they were fixed , still have the problem, turned off secure boot, no change, turned it back on, still no change, spent all day trying to fix it

Somehow I managed to get it to boot into low graphics mode, I deleted a 700mb file and now have 1gb of free space but after rebooting I still have the problem, well, now it just hangs on the ubuntu...

Hello all, my system won't boot, it wouldn't shut down last night, it froze on the "shut down or restart" dialogue, so I had to hold down the power button to shut it down. Today I get the message in...

I just removed the ppa manually, then installed transmission ad it seems successful . . so far at least.

Thanks for your help.

Hmm, after running
sudo ppa-purge ppa:transmissionbt/ppa I get this :


Warning: apt-get update failed for some reason

Great, thanks I ll give it a go. It only purges the ppa and deffo wont get rid of the partially downloaded files I have in the Transmission folder ?

Sorry, in all the years I ve used Ubuntu I never took any notice which version of Transmission was used - never really needed to, its always been installed with Ubuntu, I didnt even realise there...

transmission/xenial,xenial 2.93-1ubuntu1~16.04.1ubuntu1 all
lightweight BitTorrent client

transmission-cli/xenial 2.93-1ubuntu1~16.04.1ubuntu1 amd64
lightweight BitTorrent client (command...

I ve never had a problem with a partial upgrade before, although I ve rarely done them, I usually rely on software updater to get things right, not had it get anything wrong before.

I dont get...

Software updater said there was an update earlier today, I looked and it was a partial upgrade, not sure why only a couple of things were going to be updated and transmission was one, anway I...