Amir Szekely added the comment: Reproduction details:
[root@meh /]# uname -a Linux meh 2.6.32-131.17.1.el6-0.0.3.smp.pae.gcc4.1.x86.i686 #1 SMP Tue Dec 20 02:40:22 PST 2011 i686 GNU/Linux [root@meh /]# pwd / [root@meh /]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/BIG bs=4M dd: writing `/tmp/BIG': No space left on device 31+0 records in 30+0 records out 127254528 bytes (127 MB) copied, 3.7028 s, 34.4 MB/s [root@meh /]# ls bin boot dev etc home initrd lib lost+found media mnt opt proc root sbin srv sys tmp usr var [root@meh /]# python -c "import tempfile; tempfile.mktemp()" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.4/tempfile.py", line 362, in mktemp dir = gettempdir() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/tempfile.py", line 268, in gettempdir tempdir = _get_default_tempdir() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/tempfile.py", line 214, in _get_default_tempdir raise IOError, (_errno.ENOENT, IOError: [Errno 2] No usable temporary directory found in ['/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/usr/tmp', '/'] [root@meh /]# ls bin boot dev etc home initrd lib lost+found media mnt opt proc -qE-nI root sbin srv sys tmp usr var [root@meh /]# ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16800> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com