Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Lisi Reisz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > > > > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the > > resulting > > garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me that this

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Lisi Reisz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the resulting > garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me that this is Most comments in that thread lead you to the correct con

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:46:32AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the > resulting garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me > that this is overflow. I therefore need to do some

Re: choosing a Debian Package to learn to package

2008-12-03 Thread Maria Nelson
Hi again, I'm not sure this message will get appended to the right thread. Thanks for all your helpful suggestions. I'm definitely interested in putting in some effort to learn how to package stuff. I'm looking to pick up vbpp, which is currently orphaned. If I don't worry about how to Debian-iz

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Carmen Marcela Alegria C.
--- El mié 3-dic-08, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > De:: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Asunto: Re: /tmp accidentally filled > A: debian-women@lists.debian.org > Fecha: miércoles, 3 diciembre, 2008, 5:36 pm > 2008/12/3 Simon Valiquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/12/3 Simon Valiquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There is probably some exception, but in most cases you can safely delete > everything in /tmp without any major problems. Don't delete sockets! KDE likes to keep sockets in /tmp. Deleting them will make your KDE session unstable. I can't think o

Re: /tmp accidentally filled - SOLVED, thanks to the help

2008-12-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2008-12-03 kello 17:10 +, Lisi Reisz kirjoitti: > As a result of the suggestions made on this list, I rebooted into the CLI, > checked, and /tmp was completely empty. I then rebooted into the GUI - > and /tmp had the same files, by name. But it is no longer reported as 100% > full, and

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Simon Valiquette
Lisi Reisz un jour écrivit: As I said, I have never had to do anything to tmp before. But it has not cleaned up at boot and the fact that it is 100% full is causing problems. This is a direct result of the mess I created when I messed up my backup. I have deleted the bulk of the stuff wrongl

Re: /tmp accidentally filled - SOLVED, thanks to the help

2008-12-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
As a result of the suggestions made on this list, I rebooted into the CLI, checked, and /tmp was completely empty. I then rebooted into the GUI - and /tmp had the same files, by name. But it is no longer reported as 100% full, and there do not seem to be any more problems. Thanks, guys :-) Li

Women in Open Source at SCALE 7x

2008-12-03 Thread Gareth J. Greenaway
The Linux Expo of Southern California is proud to announce their second Women in Open Source Conference. The conference will be held on February 20th, 2009 in conjunction with the 7th Annual So Cal Linux Expo. The SCALE 7X Women In Open Source conference continues last year's work in encouragin

Re: Problem with sound in Lenny installation

2008-12-03 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/12/2 Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am sorry about my harsh response to Jordi, I missunderstood his words, > and no hard feelings from my side at all. None here either! The internet is rife with textual miscommunications. :-) - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:29:50AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 03 December 2008 10:02:38 Kevin Mark wrote: > > Thanks for your help, Kevin. > > As I said, I have never had to do anything to tmp before. But it has not > cleaned up at boot and the fact that it is 100% full is causing

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 10:02:38 Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:46:32AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > > > > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the > > resulting garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp an

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Alba Ferri
Hi Lisi, I've install my Debian with very little space in the / partition (I guess I didn't pay much attention on what i was doing) and I get space overflow frecuently :( Searching posible solutions I found what Kevin says, but not as nice, thanks Kevin to point the pipeline! But I found two mor

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:46:32AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the resulting > garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me that this is > overflow. I therefore need to do s

/tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
Here's another simpleton question. :-( I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the resulting garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me that this is overflow. I therefore need to do some more deleting. But I am ashamed to say that I have not explored