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gdm could not write a new authorization entry to disk
Posted: 2. May 2017, 21:12
by tharpa
I think the title sums it up. I got to a command line.
What should I do from there?
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Posted: 2. May 2017, 21:32
by tharpa
Re: gdm could not write a new authorization entry to disk
Posted: 2. May 2017, 21:55
by gapan
So your hard drive was full?
Re: gdm could not write a new authorization entry to disk
Posted: 7. May 2017, 20:11
by tharpa
gapan wrote:So your hard drive was full?
No, not at all. But yet, it temporarily fixed the problem.
I have a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet with a lot of chained formulas. When I do work on that, is when the problem recurs.
Today, sudo spi --clean is not helping.
The earliest problem message I can see on the terminal is /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/20-resolv.conf: line 53: echo: write error: No space left on device.
Re: gdm could not write a new authorization entry to disk
Posted: 7. May 2017, 20:22
by gapan
tharpa wrote:The earliest problem message I can see on the terminal is /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/20-resolv.conf: line 53: echo: write error: No space left on device.
So, your hard drive is full.
[SOLVED]gdm could not write a new authorization entry to dis
Posted: 7. May 2017, 21:16
by tharpa
gapan wrote:
So, your hard drive is full.
Thanks. I got out of the immediate jam by
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find /tmp -ctime +10 -exec rm -rf {} +
But my sda1, which is the problem, is still up to 90% of 15 G.
I want to find what is using up my sda1 space. This seems to be a fairly common question on the web, but I cannot find any straight answers. The Disk Usage Analyzer seems to look at the entire file system, but I do not see any way of using it to find out info about sda1.
Edit:
OK, the problem seems to be resolved for now. perbh at linuxquestions (slackware) suggested
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/usr/bin/find /tmp -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print0 | /usr/bin/xargs -0r /bin/rm -rf
Now my sda1 is only 66% used, so the problem appears to be resolved.