you did state that there is plenty of space available, but did you check all drives/partitions?
-wes On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 7:33 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > A few days ago, while attempting to get information about a movie file > that had a long and complicated name I just typed the first couple of > letters and then hit tab. Here is an example from just now: > > mkvmerge -i The_bash: cannot create temp file for > here-document: No space left on device > > I had typed 'The_' before hitting tab. And, of course, there are > terabytes of free space available. > > When this first occurred a few days ago I started to post a query here, > but was delayed in sending it. A few hours later I discovered that the > problem had resolved itself, so I killed the post that I was going to > send. But tonight it is back, so I probably need to solve the problem. > > In case it is important, I almost always use Gnome terminal, but last > time it happened I experimented by going to a real command line > (Ctrl-Alt-F1), where the problem continued. In other words, it is > probably not Gnome terminal. > > The computer is Xubuntu 14.04, up to date. > > Observations and suggestions welcome. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
