Thanks for all previous suggestions. An "updates available" message resulted in an update that stopped in the middle because of insufficient space. This has left me with a system in which character-based programs are working, but any attempt to use a program that tries to open an X-window leads to a screen with a cartoon of a frowning monitor and a message that my system has had to be stopped for its own good.
I ran apt-get clean, which seems to have reduced the space used by /var (see output below). However, what can I do about /root ? Attempts to run claws-mail and mozilla/iceweasel produce the frowning-monitor message. After I get sufficient disk space, is there something simple I can do to resume the updating operation that started the problem? ------------------------------------------------------------ Output from df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 330215 239930 73236 77% / udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev tmpfs 400736 692 400044 1% /run /dev/disk/by-uuid/ 330215 239930 73236 77% / 0923b264-3863-4302-b3a3-23fd36f4ab8e tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs 2457460 0 2457460 0% /run/shm /dev/sda10 176581224 1258652 166352744 1% /home /dev/sda9 376807 10265 347086 3% /tmp /dev/sda6 8649992 5981124 2229472 73% /usr /dev/sda7 2882592 433004 2303156 16% /var ------------------------------------------------------------ Output from running du --maxdepth 1 in /root: 21 ./.pki 891 ./.gstreamer-0.10 16799 ./.mozilla 4 ./.pulse 1 ./Pictures 26229 ./.cache 11 ./.gconf 1 ./Music 4 ./.dbus 1504 ./.config 52 ./.gnupg 1 ./Downloads 3 ./.mission-control 279 ./.local 428 ./.gimp-2.8 1 ./Templates 1 ./Videos 28 ./.gnash 48 ./.scid 1 ./Desktop 24641 ./.claws-mail 1 ./Public 3 ./.gnome2 11 ./.aptitude 8 ./.thumbnails 2 ./.emacs.d 1 ./.gvfs 1 ./Documents 1 ./.gnome2_private 55 ./.texmf-var 71286 . ------------------------------------------------------------ Output from df -i : Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on rootfs 85344 8768 76576 11% / udev 499395 462 498933 1% /dev tmpfs 500915 454 500461 1% /run /dev/disk/by-uuid/ 85344 8768 76576 11% / 0923b264-3863-4302-b3a3-23fd36f4ab8e tmpfs 500915 1 500914 1% /run/lock tmpfs 500915 2 500913 1% /run/shm /dev/sda10 1214848 5285 11209563 1% /home /dev/sda9 97536 16 97520 1% /tmp /dev/sda6 549440 248502 300938 46% /usr /dev/sda7 183264 9613 173651 6% /var -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150212223550.64b06...@toshiba2012.hsd1.il.comcast.net
