Try deleting some files on the root partion in /tmp /tmp/kde* had some huge files in mine. Deleted them and got 13% off the 20 gigs back. On Sunday 02 March 2008 08:30:32 am Donald D Henson wrote:

My wife was trying to check her email using Thunderbird 2.0 running under OpenSuSE 10.3. Thunderbird told her that her mail could not be written either because the disk was full or she doesn't have write permissions.

I decided to try the MS method, restart. The restart went as usual except that GDM refused to load, compaining of insufficient space to write the authorization file.

I tried logging in using my troubleshooting acct. Same as the above.

Successfully logged in as root. Tried deleting some large rdiff-backup files. I realized that the rdiff-backup files are on an external drive which is no longer connected to this computer. Now I'm really confused.

I decided to ask you all or help. On the way out of root, I noticed that the Computer/Status/Hard Drive indicated that the hard drive has 23 GB free.

I can provide system logs as long as you can tell me which one. I'm not very good at low-level troubleshooting but I can follow instructions. Thanks for any assistance.

Don Henson

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On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:30:32 -0700 Donald D Henson wrote:

My wife was trying to check her email using Thunderbird 2.0 running under OpenSuSE 10.3. Thunderbird told her that her mail could not be written either because the disk was full or she doesn't have write permissions.

I decided to try the MS method, restart. The restart went as usual except that GDM refused to load, compaining of insufficient space to write the authorization file.

I tried logging in using my troubleshooting acct. Same as the above.

Successfully logged in as root. Tried deleting some large rdiff-backup files. I realized that the rdiff-backup files are on an external drive which is no longer connected to this computer. Now I'm really confused.

I decided to ask you all or help. On the way out of root, I noticed that the Computer/Status/Hard Drive indicated that the hard drive has 23 GB free.

As previously mentioned, check to make sure that there is space left in / and /var. The mail directory is in /var/spool/mail (and /var/mail which is a symlink). I found that there are a couple of things that could be happening. First, in that directory make sure that she has a file for her user name, and that it is owned by her user id, and its permission is -rw-------. Secondly, how is the mail transferred to the MTA. If you are configured for local mail on port 25, or do you immediately upload it to your ISP. Third, I don't use Thunderbird, but most mail clients store mail in ~/mail or ~/Mail. I've seen cases where the ownership of these directories or files within them somehow get chaged permissions. I am __assuming__ that Thunderbird has a queue mailbox. -- -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846