Difficult upgrade -- /tmp directory -- Chrome running out of memory

[JGT]

Hi

I Upgraded from 12.04 to 13.04 over the weekend. Grub couldn't find my partitions afterwards so I had to recover using a boot repair disk.

Things are okay apart from two problems:

1) When I booted for the first time, my PC said the tmp directory was missing. (I don't have a log of the exact message, sorry). My root directory still lists the tmp directory highlighted in green. I can cd into the tmp directory though.

2) When I use Chromium browser, tabs keep running out of memory. Youtube rarely works.

I think these two things are related. What can I do?

-- Thanks





Chrome keeps runig out

[dino99]

i suppose your swap partition is not activated. Check that /etc/fstab uuids match the "sudo blkid" output
and remember to clean your system: clean/autoclean/autoremove/gtkorphan/bleachbit

[JGT]

Thank-you. I barely know how to follow your instructions. I'm usually happy to experiment.


john@john-Dell-DV051:~$ cat /etc/fstab uuids
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=7213dfa0-b28c-44b1-8666-c5a2c301dd12 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=15a48bde-14c9-4ad9-8ba6-123faf98a53a none swap sw 0 0
cat: uuids: No such file or directory

then


john@john-Dell-DV051:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for john:
/dev/sda1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="DellUtility" UUID="07D6-0310" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda2: UUID="E0FCAE34FCAE053E" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="DellRestore" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda5: UUID="7213dfa0-b28c-44b1-8666-c5a2c301dd12" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: UUID="15a48bde-14c9-4ad9-8ba6-123faf98a53a" TYPE="swap"

I don't know what to do with:
clean/autoclean/autoremove/gtkorphan/bleachbit

[JGT]

Um, I've worked out that bleachbit is a program. I've installed it but it has GUI options like "shred" and "wipe" which I do not wish to try out.

I think that the following is telling me that the swap partition isn't mounted, as you suspected:


# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=7213dfa0-b28c-44b1-8666-c5a2c301dd12 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=15a48bde-14c9-4ad9-8ba6-123faf98a53a none swap sw 0 0

[JGT]

bump

[SlugSlug]

fstab is fine

try


sudo swapon


also

post output of


df -h


free -m


ls -l /

[JGT]

I tried sudo swapon -a

then:

df -h


Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 19G 17G 983M 95% /
udev 236M 4.0K 236M 1% /dev
tmpfs 98M 840K 97M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 244M 68K 244M 1% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user

free -m


total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 486 461 25 0 6 299
-/+ buffers/cache: 155 331
Swap: 941 70 870


ls -l /


total 96
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 02:10 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 20 18:43 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 2012 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4360 Aug 23 18:39 dev
drwxr-xr-x 162 root root 12288 Aug 23 20:37 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 22 2012 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Aug 20 18:42 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-39-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Aug 20 18:41 initrd.img.old -> /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-39-generic
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jul 26 01:48 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 22 2012 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 6 21:29 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 19 2012 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 23 2012 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 141 root root 0 Aug 23 19:39 proc
drwx------ 9 root root 4096 Aug 8 17:36 root
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 780 Aug 23 20:37 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 26 01:52 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 2012 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 23 2012 srv
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Aug 23 19:39 sys
drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 Aug 23 21:31 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Apr 23 2012 usr
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Aug 23 07:11 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Aug 20 18:42 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-39-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Aug 20 18:41 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-39-generic

[JGT]

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