Trouble installing Gutsy

[ahurd]

Re: Trouble installing Gutsy

MD5sum and disk check were ok. Got Gparted figured out. Now have new partition and another backup for /home. Tried install again and same problem. After login, I get popup in upper left corner with message "Call to Inusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation". I click on little box "okay" and screen fills with same old garbage. I find space problem a little surprising since the partition on which I mount / has about 20g!

[dibl]

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It sounds like the problem is pretty fundamental -- something to do with the hard drive or the partitioning scheme or something like that.

How many partitions do you have? Maximum, if memory serves, is 3 primary plus one extended, and within the extended a max of 12 logical partitions, for a grand total of 16.

Also, you didn't mention swap -- you did make a swap partition, along with the "/" and "/home" partitions, right? What filesystem format did you choose?

If you are dual booting, you can only have one "bootable" flag set, and that needs to be on the Windows partition.

Those are some of things that could possibly be relevant to the problem.

[Qqmike]

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A google on the string:
Call to Inusertemp failed (temporary directories full?
brings up several hits. A pain to sort through it all, but there may be something that is same/similar to your situation.

[ahurd]

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Thank you both.
Dibl: Everything you mentioned is ok except it occurs to me that I didn't set swap to some file system, assuming it was automatic. I could try install again but if you can tell me if that could possibly be the problem, that would help.

Qqmike: I googled myself but didn't turn up anything of interest.

[dibl]

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Linux swap needs to be assigned to its own partition, separate from the rest of the filesystem. Probably 1GB in size is fine. You don't need to assign a filesystem format -- swap IS a format.

[Qqmike]

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The google-woogle suggests 4 things, all unclear:

> the error seems to come with KDE4 (?)
> One guy mentioned: Sounds like your hard drive is filling up. Post the output of "df -h" and "du / -h –max-depth=1". (My Comment: the partition must be mounted for df to pick it up; I also use GParted live CD to check partition size vs "space used.")
> One post said: Fixed it, deleting the ~/.kde folder worked.
> One said to check if these are full: usr/temp & /temp

It's a new install, so you wonder what could fill up already? I just had a weird thing happen: my root partition was up to 8.7 GB – Impossible for what I do! Somehow, one of the large files I deleted (a download from another Kubuntu partition) ended up in my /home hidden /.trash folder – some 6.5 GB! I found it only by chance after opening all other root folders and several frustrated attempts.

[ahurd]

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Qqmike:
Your post on previous discussions of this problem got me thinking, in particular the one who solved his prob by deleting ~/.kde. I began to think maybe when my Feisty bit the dust in a peculiar way, it corrupted the /home directory which I saved and have been using since then. I have just installed with a /home partition which was formatted and so empty and it worked beautifully (I am typing this in Konqueror). I now have to restore the saved /home but avoid what was causing the problem. A lot of the saved /home is a mystery to me and only a few things are of especial concern (eg configs for mozilla, virtualbox). I did do a lot of tweaking so would like as much back as possible. I have a text file, installed-software.txt which can be used to restore the installed software. I presume that is the first thing I should do and it will fill out the present /home somewhat. I would appreciate any comments on how to deal with the old saved /home.

[Qqmike]

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Boy, you got me on the subject of /home. As you say, some things are obvious, like profile folders for browsers and email programs. I had an issue with ~/.kde (kdm? etc?) once that trashed everything => reinstall (no one could figure it out). Until someone chimes in here, check under Documentation > How-To's here; e.g., Rog131 has a lot of how-to's on such technical problems. I'll think about it and look also.

[dibl]

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Viewing the hidden folders in my /home directory, some of them are fairly obvious (.vlc, .gimp-2.4, .googleearth) and some less so (.purple, .local, .thumbnails).

If you are confident that your problem is strictly limited to KDE, for example, you could probably omit that one and copy the rest over. But beware such functions as dbus, gstreamer, mcop, and .mozilla -- those are going to have broader effect, I would think, so if there are problems with them, you'll bring the problems into the new system.

[Qqmike]

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An interesting (much too brief blog) googling on "Linux home directory":
http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/c...home-directory
I suspect there's lots of such ideas/posts around; problem is deciphering all those dot files! (=> more google) And the blogger had a good point, too, re his browser: scrap it and start clean! Of course, you'd want to grab the bookmarks.html file first.

I'm sure some one knows more about the ~/. directories and files.

EDIT: dibl posting in front

[ahurd]

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Thanks both. It looks from Russ blog that my probs might be a blessing (cleaning out /home) as long as corruption doesn't get passed along.