On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Randy Stapilus <[email protected]> wrote: > Writer, and tried saving a short text document. Got the message: > "OpenOffice.org could not save important internal formation due to > insufficient free disk space at the following location: /home/[my > home directory]/.openoffice.org/3/user/backup > "You will not be able to continue working with OpenOffice.org without > allocating more free disk space at that location.
There are very few applications that will work if you're out of disk space, which is what that message is indicating. I don't know how Mint works -- if it is debian-based, then you can try running 'apt-get clean' as root (without the quotes). That will delete the downloaded packages that have been used to install things. This will clear up some space, but it's not likely to be a long-term solution. Do you have anything that you can backup and delete? You can check the amount of free/used disk space by running 'df -h' at a terminal. You should see something similar to this: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 85G 57G 24G 71% / tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 276K 9.8M 3% /dev tmpfs 1.5G 404K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm you're only concerned with the lines that start with /dev/.... (the specific device(s) will probably be different for you. In my case, my drive is in one partition at /dev/sda5, but yours might be at /dev/hda3, for example.) --Rogan > Press the 'retry' > button after you have allocated more free disk space to retry saving > the data." > > Also a few other curiosities, such as reluctance to read or copy > documents from the Windows side that it had previously been working > with just fine. (And an odd disappearance on Firefox of back-button > functionality, though the browser otherwise works okay.) > > Tried reboot, couple of times, but no change. > > I guess I'm wondering first of all if there's some sort of system > restore that takes me back to the pre-LyX install period? (The system > had been working fine up until then.) Or what the next best, probably > meaning simplest, option might be? > > And let me know if there's more info I could provide that would help. > > > > Randy Stapilus > [email protected] > member, American Society of Journalists & Authors > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
