Nothing lasts forever

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After getting back from holiday and applying the millions of updates to all my machines everything was fine. I was amazed.That just doesn't happen. Things usually go wrong.

They have. I booted up again and my arch-linux machine is causing grief.

Last night I checked my email, turned off and today I cannot launch firefox or thunderbird and several other apps. Also I use this machine to share my music over the network and that is having problems too.

I have tried removing .gconf and .gconfd but it hasn't helped.

If I try to launch firefox from the terminal I get a message saying

**ERROR** Resource problem creating '/tmp/orbit-llawwehttam'
aborting....
Aborted


If run as root it works fine.

I have plenty space left and the permissions of /tmp/ are drwxrwxrwt 6 root root

Any help would be extremely appreciated.

$touch /tmp/orbit-llawwehttam works fine.

Looking at it in thurnar there appears to be 0B free space in / but in Gparted there is 750Mb. Is there a minimum I can have?


I've just booted from an ubuntu live cd and I'm resizing partitions to give / a few gigs more. I doubt it will make a difference though. Bit of a pity, I was starting to really like arch.

Oh well. If anyone can help, it would be very appreciated.

If not I will crawl back to debian.

[Huge Pear]

im just gonna make a guess but im guessing all those files where working fine before you updated every thing. perhaps it has the updates messing some of the coding about?

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The updates seem fine. I'm guessing its an issue with log files taking up too much space.

EDIT: Fixed now. It was caused by too many log files.