When you had this problem did you do a "df" to check out all your filesystems. Particularly if you have a small filesystem for holding /tmp (it might be infact using tmpfs), then a reboot would fix the problem. If your mail program needs to use temporary files for moving things around, running out of /tmp would mean bad things could occur.
Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:21 PM, elliott-brennan <elliottbren...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks everyone. I've a bit to chew on and so will > get to it. > > I had a message underneath the '<4%' message of > which I could only read a couple of words. I've > just had the same message. Thunderbird would not > down load new mail: > > 'Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make > sure the file system allows you write privileges, > and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox' > > I tried one googled suggestion which was to > 'chown' the /home/<name>/.mozilla-thunderbird file > > Simultaneously, when I went to use Konqueror as a > super user > > kdesu konqueror > > I got a message saying it couldn't connect to > x-server : 0 > > manually 'chown'-ing the Thunderbird file didn't > work. I ended up rebooting and it seems fine. > > One thing I have noticed is that each time I've > used my bluetooth adapter, I've had other odd > problems (eg. shutdown only occurs if I press any > key on the keyboard, as if after going to shutdown > it requires 'assistance' to close. > > All of this is quite odd. Dapper was very stable - > machine would be on for weeks at a time. 8.04 > seems rather less so. This is rather frustrating > and makes me wonder whether I should shut the > machine down each night. > > These experiences are rather, > urm...<cough>...Windows like :) > > Again, any help is most appreciated. > > Regards, > > Patrick > > -- > Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
