/tmp is only full because / has no more room left, its full. I had this
problem and went into /opt and rm'd star office. Quick and dirty to get back
to a GUI.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Heinrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: /tmp full
>
> KUrt wrote:
> <Space usage:
> < df -h /tmp
> < du -s /tmp
> <What's using /tmp?
> < lsof +d /tmp
> < lsof +D /tmp
>
> I tried this and got: hda3, 1.5GB, mounted on / , 100% usage
> I'm not sure what's going on here :(
>
> I then tried to delete the /tmp via rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /tmp
> which looked like
> it worked (I got the bash prompt on the next line without error). But
when
> I ls -a the root directory /tmp is still there.
>
> To briefly restate my ultimate goal and initial problem. I am trying to
> start kde. When I attempt to login via the graphical login screen. It
> looks like kde tries to start but it kicks me back out to the login
screen.
> I have found an error that indicates /tmp is full.
>
> I gave up on the /tmp issue. And blindly tried running kfm from failsafe
> login. Whammo there it is. Then feeling like I can push my luck, I find
> "kde" in the directory gui from kfm and wouldn't ya know kde starts right
> up. I did get an error message when I tried to run kdm from the console -
> can't remember it right now though. This newbie is thoroughly confused!!
> I'll keep plugging away at it though.
>
> Mark
>
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