Temporary problem!

[Ted]

Fun and games this morning, unable to log in to my user account. Constant circular kickback to the login screen. 

Long story short, it turns out that my /tmp folder in the root directory was full (6.5gb), /tmp full = / full = no worky    I've heard of this before, but never experienced it.

solution: get yourself to a terminal in safe mode, failsafe, whatever, and log in as root.

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rm -rdf /tmp/*

Should do the trick, it did for me 

Might be a good idea to empty it before it gets full. Probably not a good idea to do it with an X server running, so log out first.

Off now to do a bit more clearing out, /var can get quite big as well.

[DorsetBoy]

You should have opened a window Ted   

[Rik]

 

[Ted]

You should have opened a window Ted   

Tried that, but it was too much of a pane. 

[Rik]

[Ted]

I thank you. 

[Rik]

 

You're welcome, Ted.

[JB]

This is enough to shatter your confidence in Linux.

[Rik]

I have no confidence in Linux - well, strictly that's in me mastering it.

[JB]

Stoney ground ?

[Rik]

Lack of confidence as much as anything, JB.

[JB]

window - pane - shatter   I'll get me coat 

[Rik]

 

[Ted]

I have no confidence in Linux - well, strictly that's in me mastering it.

Nah, tis easy. As always there's a way to automate the task, but being Linux it's an "opt in" option, because there's reasons why you may not want to delete your temp files.

I'd forgotten to do it with this install, but it's done now. 

[Rik]

I like tick boxes like that.

[esh]

Or just have a 700GB /tmp drive like I do. It wasn't a mistake at all, honest.

[DorsetBoy]

 

I made all the partitions too small the first time I played with Linux. Now I give everything a BIG slice of the drive.