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UtahBud
July 5th, 2011, 08:50 PM
Hi there,
I've been running 10.04 LTS (loaded using Wubi alongside Win 7 Home Premium) since late last year, with minimal problems and have thoroughly enjoyed it.

However: Within the past month or so soon after logging in I've been receiving a "Low Disk Space" warning followed by the amount remaining. First 872.6 Mb (or so) lowering slowing and sporadically to just under 400Mb.

I gained some space by removing photos and music but the space loss continued. Saturday, the amount remaining was 315.2 at log-in and within minutes, while I was just reading a small text file, another warning popped up indicating I had only 36 Mb remaining. I hadn't downloaded, updated or upgraded a thing during that session. I searched for other large files to remove and finding none I logged off and shut it down.

Since then when I boot up to Ubuntu I get a box with the message " Install Problem- The configuration defaults for Gnome Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your administrator." It allows me to enter my password but when I hit "enter", returns me to the same screen (which is graphically different than log-in screen was when things were OK). I tried booting to an earlier Kernel, with the same results.

I'm a noobie (and often Numb- I neither backed up my files nor wrote down my Firefox passwords) and don't have much experience using terminal, which I can access using safe mode. Ideally I would like to get it back up and running. However, I would settle for getting my data, especially Firefox passwords. Hope I wasn't too verbose here but wanted to include as much detail as I could. Thanks for any/all assistance. Bud

dirty_harry
July 5th, 2011, 09:36 PM
can you boot into windows?
try accessing your wubi installation from windows:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How_can_I_make_a_backup_of_my_Wubi_insta ll.3F
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How_can_I_access_the_Wubi_files_from_Win dows.3F


further information/help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1639198
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

sanguinoso
July 5th, 2011, 09:37 PM
Can you post the output of the command
df -h here? (Run that in the terminal)

TDK800
July 5th, 2011, 10:45 PM
Started getting same problem after today's updates on Ubuntu 11.04

bcbc
July 5th, 2011, 11:31 PM
I've used this tool http://ext2read.blogspot.com/ to access the root.disk from windows. (Just point it at your C:\ubuntu\disks\root.disk file - change C: if required)

Also, if you want to get it running again, I'd suggest resizing (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10590851&postcount=2) it. (You'll likely have to do this from a live environment i.e. booting from a live CD/USB). Make sure you backup your data or the entire root.disk first.