prosario_2000
November 1st, 2008, 06:26 PM
Recently, I've upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10, and there are some problems with it. The most serious one that is a bit disruptive has to do with the /tmp file.
For some reason, I'm unable to directly download from websites. I'm not able to send messages with SwiftDove (a variant of Mozilla-Thunderbird), because it says that the temporary file is full, and similar problems because the /tmp seems to be full.
The funny thing is that even when I clean the /tmp file of most of its content .. it still says is full. It says that it uses 100% of 1 MB. The interesting thing is that /tmp is not a separate partition.
Whenever I install something, sometimes I have errors in /var that seem to have the same problem of /var "not having enough space". For example, this happened when I was installing 3dChess:
(Reading database ... 463126 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace 3dchess 0.8.1-15 (using .../3dchess_0.8.1-15_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement 3dchess ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/cs/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/de/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/es/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/fi/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/fr.ISO8859-1/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/fr.UTF-8/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/fr/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/gl/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/hu/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/id/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/it.ISO8859-1/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/it.UTF-8/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/it/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/ja/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/ko/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pa/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pl.ISO8859-2/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pl.UTF-8/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pl/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pt_BR/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/sr@latin/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/py/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/ru/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/sv/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/tr/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/zh_CN/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/zh_TW/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/de.UTF-8/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/eu/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/sr/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/da/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/lt/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/nl/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/sk/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/vi/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pt/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/ca_ES@valencia/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't create index cache /var/cache/man/oldlocal/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't create index cache /var/cache/man/local/9041: No space left on device
Setting up 3dchess (0.8.1-15) ...
I'm using an Intel-64 bit computer. 4 GB RAM, 186.31 GB Hard drive.
/ - 13.97 GB
swap - 3.68 GB
/home - 168.66 GB (Using 95.32 GB)
I really need this solved quickly. Any help will be appreciated.
For some reason, I'm unable to directly download from websites. I'm not able to send messages with SwiftDove (a variant of Mozilla-Thunderbird), because it says that the temporary file is full, and similar problems because the /tmp seems to be full.
The funny thing is that even when I clean the /tmp file of most of its content .. it still says is full. It says that it uses 100% of 1 MB. The interesting thing is that /tmp is not a separate partition.
Whenever I install something, sometimes I have errors in /var that seem to have the same problem of /var "not having enough space". For example, this happened when I was installing 3dChess:
(Reading database ... 463126 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace 3dchess 0.8.1-15 (using .../3dchess_0.8.1-15_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement 3dchess ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/cs/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/de/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/es/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/fi/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/fr.ISO8859-1/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/fr.UTF-8/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/fr/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/gl/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/hu/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/id/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/it.ISO8859-1/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/it.UTF-8/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/it/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/ja/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/ko/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pa/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pl.ISO8859-2/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pl.UTF-8/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pl/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pt_BR/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/sr@latin/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/py/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/ru/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/sv/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/tr/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/zh_CN/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/zh_TW/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/de.UTF-8/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/eu/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/sr/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/da/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/lt/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/nl/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/sk/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/vi/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/pt/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/ca_ES@valencia/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't create index cache /var/cache/man/oldlocal/9041: No space left on device
/usr/bin/mandb: can't create index cache /var/cache/man/local/9041: No space left on device
Setting up 3dchess (0.8.1-15) ...
I'm using an Intel-64 bit computer. 4 GB RAM, 186.31 GB Hard drive.
/ - 13.97 GB
swap - 3.68 GB
/home - 168.66 GB (Using 95.32 GB)
I really need this solved quickly. Any help will be appreciated.