Can't boot anymore after a series of malfunctions

[doktorOblivion]

Try this, if you can obtain a command line, clean up /var/log dir.

ls -al /var/log/*

This might show you what's eating up all the space. If you can figure out which log is using all the space, edit it or just delete it. However, I would take a look at it to see what might be causing the log to fill up.

[comp3000]

To doktor: Thanks, when I enter that command it outputs a long list, the last 6 entries of which end in a string of red-colored text:
[...] unattended-upgrades.log.1.gz
[...] unattended-upgrades.log.2.gz
[...] unattended-upgrades.log.3.gz
[...] unattended-upgrades.log.4.gz
[...] unattended-upgrades.log.5.gz
[...] unattended-upgrades.log.6.gz

They are all dated from the 1st or 2nd day of each of the last 6 months.
How do I scroll through the list, and what do I look for?
Again, thanks for the help.

[nothingspecial]

I selected the wrong prefix for a previous thread by mistake and I'd like to change it. Can you tell me how to do this, or is it something only a moderator can do? Thanks.

Done.

[Wim Sturkenboom]

~$ df -h --max-depth=1
df: Unbekannte Option »--max-depth=1«
„df --help“ gibt weitere Informationen.

max-depth is for du, not for df

[doktorOblivion]

I would recommend from the /var/logs directory where you see all those repeated files with small changes to their names:

rm -fr unattended-upgrades.log*

See if that provides any relief. Run the df -a or the correct du command mentioned before that I goofed on to see if it worked. You may have to remove [delete] other stuff as well.

I am guessing this system does not have a lot or storage to begin with...

[Wim Sturkenboom]

They are all dated from the 1st or 2nd day of each of the last 6 months.
How do I scroll through the list, and what do I look for?

ls -lS

^will sort by size

ls -lt

^will sort by date/time (newest first)

ls -lrt

^will sort by date/time (oldest first)

And you can pipe the result through 'less' (see below) so you can scroll up and down

ls -lS | less

[comp3000]

Done.

Thanks, my finger slipped.
Cheers.