[H-GEN] Cannot login into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS after installing UberStudent in multiboot because of Gnome Power Manager's config defaults

[Russell Stuart]

On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 07:20 +1000, Clarissa Womack wrote:

> /usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/3547: No space left on
> device
> 
> /usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/4445: No space left on
> device

So the problem is you have run out of disk space.  When that happens the
configuration files get 1/2 written, and they look corrupted when they
are read on boot.

I would just fix up the problem from the command line.  If you aren't
comfortable with that do this from the command line:

   apt-get clean

and the other solutions given earlier to fix up the configuration files,
then reboot.

If that doesn't get you enough space browse the disk using a live
CD/USB/PXE.  Files and directories under /tmp and /var/tmp/ are
recreated on boot, so you can safely remove anything there.  Files (but
not directories) under /var/log can be removed.   The rest is either
stuff you put there, or was installed by packages which you can
uninstall.

> The Debian netinst iso is 190MB whilst the business card iso is 45MB
> in size.
> 
> Which one should I use? 
Both create identical Debian installations, and both have to download
packages from a Debian repository in order to do that.

For your use both are equivalent, so I'd take the smaller one.  The
difference becomes important when you need a rescue CD (think a live CD
without the GUI).  The bigger one comes with more tools than the smaller
one and thus tends to be more useful as a rescue CD.