On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 03:22:42PM +0300, Brian Ssennoga wrote: > Folks, > > I need your help - my machine needed a reboot, but never woke up from > it, instead > "The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been > installed correctly" > > and as a result i get a b/w welcome window for the login screen, shared > with a shell prompt, and no working state whatsoever. > I did some poking around, and Google said it had to do with space on my > root partition, and indeed: > > df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 224G 213G 0 100% /
You need to delete files. > none 995M 240K 995M 1% /dev > none 1000M 0 1000M 0% /dev/shm > none 1000M 124K 999M 1% /var/run > none 1000M 0 1000M 0% /var/lock > none 1000M 0 1000M 0% /lib/init/rw > > fdisk gets me this and quits before i can do anything about: Eep! Don't mess about with fdisk. > > fdisk /dev/sda1 > Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF > disklabel > Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x685be124. > Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. > After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. > > Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) > > WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to > switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to > sectors (command 'u'). > > Command (m for help): Command (m for help): Command (m for help): > got EOF thrice - exiting.. > Be glad it exited without letting you continue. :P > As of now, i have no access to this machine other than good ol ssh, and there > is nothin in /home/[users] that could make up for that space, > Moreover only 3 accounts exists, and i have checked them all, nothing space > consuming as > > Working Details: > Machine Function - Server/local Mirror > Access - FTP and GUI Did someone hack into your ftp server and fill it up with porn and warez? > OS - Ubuntu Linux 10.04.1 You could delete everything from /var/cache/apt/archives/. Normally that frees up a couple gigs. > Kernel and CPU - Linux 2.6.32-25-server on x86_64 > > > Anything i might have missed? any solutions? > du -sh /* 2> /dev/null It will show you which directory is using the disk. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
