[H-GEN] Cannot login into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS after installing UberStudent in multiboot because of Gnome Power Manager's config defaults
Clarissa Womack
clarissa.womack at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 06:27:05 EDT 2011
Russell
How do I clear the folder /media/Ubuntu/home/cwomack/tmp
I've tried
rm -r (name of directory)
rmdir (name of directory)
Thanks
Clarissa
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Cannot login into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS after installing
UberStudent in multiboot because of Gnome Power Manager's config defaults
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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.
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