Re: Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system
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?
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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
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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 .
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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
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