It turns out that was what I did. Without realizing it, I had filled the Linux partition nearly to the top with music files, and then when I did the LyX install, it filled totally. I got rid of the music files, and things seem to operating ok now.
Randy Stapilus www.ridenbaugh.com Northwest politics and public affairs WA, OR, ID Public Affairs Digests On Feb 6, 2010, at 7:43 PM, wes wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
