update install, login gone

[cloggie]

Hi,

This afternoon I installed some updated software through the normal way. The "update icon" showed up, and I followed it all.
Halfway through downloading the update list, it froze, for some reason. I cancelled downloading the update list, but it still came back that Amarok could be updated. So I clicked the update button, and apparently, Amarok got updated.
So far, so good.
When I logged out, Kubuntu just froze altogether.
No problem, restart the system.
 Yeah, right. When my login screen appeared, I typed my password, clicked "enter" and waited. Then I got hit with " xsession: warning: unable to write to /tmp; xsession may exit with an error".
And sure enough, I was not able to get onto my account.
So I tried my daughters account, and there I was able to log on to. How strange. Why is this?
I wanted to run apt-get clean in a console, so I "sudo't" it, it asked for the password (remember, I am still running on my daughters account) I gave it my su password, and got no permission to run apt-get? Why is that? Even sudo su didn't work. I can't get anything to go now, as far as administrator rights go. how do I attack this?
I hate to reinstall Kubuntu and thought that these things should not happen? Or am I too naive?

Please help me, because running on my daughters account doesn't work for me. I really need to acces my own account again.

[Rog131]

If you are lucky, your harddrive is full. Try

Code:

df -h

df - report file system disk space usage

If full -> Start computer with kubuntu cd, mount harddrive/partition, clean /var/cache/apt/archives.

The "update icon" showed up, and I followed it all...thought that these things should not happen? Or am I too naive?

Automagic things are good when they work 110% 

[cloggie]

This is what my harddrive gave me:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6             3.7G  3.2G  341M  91% /
varrun                248M   88K  248M   1% /var/run
varlock               248M     0  248M   0% /var/lock
procbususb            248M  108K  248M   1% /proc/bus/usb
udev                  248M  108K  248M   1% /dev
devshm                248M     0  248M   0% /dev/shm
lrm                   248M   33M  215M  14% /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/volatile
/dev/sda7              16G  3.7G   12G  25% /home
/dev/sda1              39M  110K   39M   1% /media/sda1
/dev/sda2              17G   15G  2.5G  86% /media/sda2

So it could be that this is the problem then. Hmm, gotta create a bigger sda6 I think.
The sda1 and sda2 are my windows partitions, and sda 7 is my home partition. Have to steal some space from there I gather.
But now I run into another problem then eh, because I am working now from my daughters account, my su password does not work for some reason, so I can not resize any partition. And btw, with what program should I do this then, the resizing part?

Thanks for your reply Rog131

[UnicornRider]

What does ls -al /tmp/ | grep kde result in?

[cloggie]

just this:
drwx------  2 froukje froukje 4096 2007-06-23 07:30 kde-froukje

("Froukje" is my daughters name  )

[UnicornRider]

Hmmm ... and how about the "parent folder": ls -al / | grep tmp ...?

[Rog131]

But now I run into another problem then eh, because I am working now from my daughters account, my su password does not work for some reason, so I can not resize any partition. And btw, with what program should I do this then, the resizing part?

If you have k/x/ubuntu cd/dvd:
You could clean (delete/move files to the windows partitions - if you have fat partitions) folders from harddisk -> more room -> you could log in as yourself (IF this is problem with room).

With livecd you could do virtual installation (if you have working net connection with live cd):

Code:

sudo apt-get install gparted

Livecd sudo is empty - no password, superuser privileges.
gparted — a graphical partitioning tool.

There is live cd/usb gparted:
Gnome Partition Editor
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

LiveCD

The power and simplicity of GParted on a biz-card size LiveCD.

The CD aims to be fast, small in size (~50mb), and use minimal resources
to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based
on Gentoo-catalyst, and uses Xorg,the lightweight Fluxbox window manager,
and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel.

and

GParted LiveUSB can be created from the iso LiveCD.

[cloggie]

Hmmm ... and how about the "parent folder": ls -al / | grep tmp ...?

drwxrwxrwt  10 root root   240 2007-06-23 20:37 tmp