Are you sure you didn't fill your hard drive or one of the partitions during the LyX install? How did you verify this?
-wes On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Randy Stapilus <[email protected]>wrote: > Getting some error messages and wondering if there's an easy fix. > > Dual booting with Windows XP, running the latest Linux Mint on an HP, > 1gb/250gb hd. Nowhere close to using up the hard drive. > > After reading some earlier posts here about LyX I decided to give it > a try, and tried installing the package. Near the end of the process > (45 inutes or so) I got an error message and it seemed to abort . . . > more or less. LyX is listed among the office software packages, but > nothing happened when I tried to run it. > > The more significant issue came up when I then tried running OO > 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. 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. > > 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? > > > 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
