On 20/04/2008, Kyle Barbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > > I booted up my system this morning and tried to install something with > aptitude, only to get the error message: > > W: Could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only mode; any > changes you make to the states of packages will NOT be preserved! > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' > to correct the problem. > > So, I tried running dpkg --configure -a, which gave me: > > dpkg: failed to write status record about `vlc-nox' to > `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device > > I ran df, and I found that my /var partition is entirely full (1.9 GB > of 1.9 GB). I don't know why - last night I ran 'aptitude > safe-upgrade', maybe that has something to do with it? I'm not sure > how to fix this problem - I'm assuming that I should pare down some > files, but I'm not sure which ones or how to prevent this from > happening again. Any thoughts? > > Thanks for the help, > Kyle Barbour
I had this problem recently, if I remember right the file at /var/log/user.log.0 had grown huge (6GB+) - I don't know if this was the right thing to do but I just deleted it (it reappeared soon after but has stayed a far more reasonable size - currently 18.kb). Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]