Hi there, I hope that someone here will be able to help me with the following. I
recently tried to install a Retrospect backup client to my Scientific Lin ux 6.1 system. The installation hung, and the next time I tried to boot the system, it refused to start and hung at this point: Mounting local filesystems: error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on device error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on device error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on device mount: devpts already mounted or /dev/pts busy mount: sysfs already mounted or /sys busy [FAILED] Enabling local filesystem quotas: [OK] Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [OK] Entering non interactive startup Calling the system activity data collector (sadc): Starting monitoring for VG vg_gapqub01: 3 logical volume(s) in volume group “vg_gapqub01" monitored [ok] dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 2.6.32-279.5.1el6.x86_ 64 And at that point the boot routine stops. I have tried to reboot several times. The result is always the same. The boot process never proceeds beyond this point. I have no clue what happened here. The hard disc certainly should not be full at this stage. I even booted Scientific Linux from the Live CD to fr ee some space deleting a number of old files, but this had no effect. I am a t a loss here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dirk
