Wolfgang, have you rebooted?
That should run fdisk which may fix what seems to be a file system error. You have sufficient backups, of course? el On 03/09/2019 20:54, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Quoting John White <j...@whitelawchartered.com>: > >> After reconfiguring, I would save one of the problem files to a usb >> stick and see if lyx will open it from there. >> >> John >> >> On Tuesday, September 3, 2019 7:31:32 AM PDT Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >>> I have saved a lyx document under a different name. I restarted lyx >>> but get a lyx disk: error: LyX could not create the temporary >>> directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpbuf1' (Disk is full maybe?) >>> >>> Before there were in /tmp 3 tmpbuf (0, 1, 2). Now there is only >>> this one: lyx_tmpdir.JvcZAzSC4585 >>> >>> Whatever lyx file I try to load (file>recent>... or file>open>...) >>> I get always this error. >>> >>> What should I do to get lyx working again? >>> >>> Wolfgang > > Thanks, John, but there seems to be a bigger problem which I am > facing. I can't open an usb stick, tells me, that it can't be invoked > (kann nicht eingebunden werden in German). Trying to start Jabref it > tells me 'read only file system', lyx disk: error as before: LyX could > not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpbuf1' (Disk is full > maybe?). df tells me there is enough storage on the disk. Firefox > tells me if I want to send a mail: Unable to save your message as a > draft. Sending of the message failed. Fortunately webmail works. > > I am on Linux Mint. I am afraid I have to try to get help from the > Tuebingen Linux User Group. > > Wolfgang
