[PLUG] problems in wake of botched Lyx install

[Rogan Creswick]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Randy Stapilus <stapilus at ridenbaugh.com> wrote:
> Writer, and tried saving a short text document. Got the message:
> "OpenOffice.org could not save important internal formation due to
> insufficient free disk space at the following location: /home/[my
> home directory]/.openoffice.org/3/user/backup
> "You will not be able to continue working with OpenOffice.org without
> allocating more free disk space at that location.

There are very few applications that will work if you're out of disk
space, which is what that message is indicating.

I don't know how Mint works -- if it is debian-based, then you can try
running 'apt-get clean' as root (without the quotes).  That will
delete the downloaded packages that have been used to install things.
This will clear up some space, but it's not likely to be a long-term
solution.

Do you have anything that you can backup and delete?

You can check the amount of free/used disk space by running 'df -h' at
a terminal.  You should see something similar to this:

$  df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5              85G   57G   24G  71% /
tmpfs                 1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M  276K  9.8M   3% /dev
tmpfs                 1.5G  404K  1.5G   1% /dev/shm

you're only concerned with the lines that start with /dev/.... (the
specific device(s) will probably be different for you.  In my case, my
drive is in one partition at /dev/sda5, but yours might be at
/dev/hda3, for example.)

--Rogan


> Press the 'retry'
> button after you have allocated more free disk space to retry saving
> the data."
>
> Also a few other curiosities, such as reluctance to read or copy
> documents from the Windows side that it had previously been working
> with just fine. (And an odd disappearance on Firefox of back-button
> functionality, though the browser otherwise works okay.)
>
> Tried reboot, couple of times, but no change.
>
> I guess I'm wondering first of all if there's some sort of system
> restore that takes me back to the pre-LyX install period? (The system
> had been working fine up until then.) Or what the next best, probably
> meaning simplest, option might be?
>
> And let me know if there's more info I could provide that would help.
>
>
>
> Randy Stapilus
> stapilus at ridenbaugh.com
> member, American Society of Journalists & Authors
>
>
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