Quoting Charles Blair (c-bl...@illinois.edu): > 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.
My own approach would be to adduser a username for all the non-recommended (ie non-administrative)tasks you've been using root for. Move the files out of /root but leaving behind things like .aptitude/ .bash_history .ssh/ You may need to extract modifications to .profile and .bashrc if you've added things. Some dotfiles like .pulse can be deleted as they seem to get recreated (in a cleaner state). That will shift loads of stuff like .cache/ .mozilla/ and .claws-mail/ from / to /home/<username> (which is, hardly surprisingly, almost empty). The only non-empty directories in hy wheezy /root are .aptitude/ and .ssh/ (as .gconf/ is empty). Check you haven't put any security-related stuff in dotfiles like .xsession which you will be moving out of root. > After I get sufficient disk space, is there something simple > I can do to resume the updating operation that started the problem? I would then apt-get update and upgrade as usual and see if the checks built into that will cope. The downloads should still be in /var/cache waiting to go. If there are problems, repost the results. Cheers, David. -- 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/20150213160334.gd7...@alum.home
