Thanks, Andreas. Took me awhile to get around to trying it, but it worked for me.
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 09:22:23PM -0400, David Thompson wrote: >> Have other Debian users worked around this issue? > > Well, you can delete the symbolic link, create a directory /dev/shm and > mount a new tmpfs there: > rm /dev/shm > mkdir /dev/shm > mount -t tmpfs -o size=1G tmpfs /dev/shm > > I did this once or twice to compile a package the tests of which would > otherwise fail. I do not know what happens if you reboot; each time, > I reverted the changes with > umount /dev/shm > rmdir /dev/shm > ln -s /run/shm /dev/shm > > Andreas >