On 9/4/19 6:09 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2019-09-03, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > ... > >> Thanks, John, but there seems to be a bigger problem which I am >> facing. I can't open an usb stick, tells me, that it can't be invoked >> (kann nicht eingebunden werden in German). Trying to start Jabref it >> tells me 'read only file system', lyx disk: error as before: LyX could >> not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpbuf1' (Disk is full >> maybe?). >> df tells me there is enough storage on the disk. Firefox tells me if I >> want to send a mail: Unable to save your message as a draft. Sending >> of the message failed. >> Fortunately webmail works. > This looks like some IO-failure triggered a mounting of the main disk as > read-only.
Most of that looks like /tmp/ issues. That may be the main disk or a separate partition. But one way or another, it's some major disk problem. Wolfgang, looking at the output of "mount" will tell you what the issue might be. I have: /dev/sda7 on /tmp type ext4 (rw,noexec,noatime) /dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime) Note how both show "rw". I am guessing you will see "ro" somewhere. Riki
