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July 9, 2014 7:48:49 AM

Hi, I am getting the following message when starting my EeePC 701:

The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE:
$Home directory (/home/user) is out of disk space.
KDE unable to start.


Can anyone advise me as to what I need to do?
Thanks.
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July 9, 2014 8:17:08 AM

micmilk wow what planet are you from? this is linux forum, llinking to microsoft is blasphemous!

correct assumption though, your /home is too full. delete some stuff!
you can check how much is used with command "df" example: my /home is 10% full:
  1. [skittle@hplaptop ~]$ df -h /home
  2. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  3. /dev/sda4 488G 47G 436G 10% /home

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July 9, 2014 8:40:33 AM

wow that was a derp mistake. dont know how i missed that but i took my answer down. sorry about that
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July 10, 2014 8:42:27 AM

skittle said:
micmilk wow what planet are you from? this is linux forum, llinking to microsoft is blasphemous!

correct assumption though, your /home is too full. delete some stuff!
you can check how much is used with command "df" example: my /home is 10% full:
  1. [skittle@hplaptop ~]$ df -h /home
  2. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  3. /dev/sda4 488G 47G 436G 10% /home





Thanks Skittle, I would like to try your suggestion, but how? It just blinks a couple of screens for a nano-second and then gives me the message. But I don't understand how this happened. I know the disk is only about ½ full and it was fine the last time I used it.

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July 10, 2014 8:50:46 AM

Can you get to a terminal?

crtl+alt+f2

then look through your home directory and remove some large files..

The disk might be only 1/2 full total but your home partition is ~100% full, which is a problem.
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July 10, 2014 8:59:36 AM

skittle said:
Can you get to a terminal?

crtl+alt+f2

then look through your home directory and remove some large files..

The disk might be only 1/2 full total but your home partition is ~100% full, which is a problem.



Hmmm, I see your point. The trouble now seems to be constantly flashing screens. It get a black screen followed by a dark grey screen with a flashing cursor, then the screen with the Intel information. But each of these screens only flashed for less than a second each, and they just do that in a cycle. If I power down and back on, it will just continue to do this three screen cycle. I am not getting the home user disk full message any more. It's as if it doesn't even get that far.

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July 10, 2014 9:07:25 AM

Do you even get to GRUB after BIOS?
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July 10, 2014 9:13:18 AM

No Alabalcho. It doesn't go that far. Nothing I do seems to make any difference. I can get into the BIOS, but that is all.
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July 10, 2014 9:28:44 AM

sounds like HDD/filesystem may be corrupted or failing. I would grab a livecd/liveusb and run a fsck (filesystem check) on your HDD.

While in the livecd/liveusb environment you can mount your HDD and remove files from the home partition to free up space.
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July 10, 2014 10:34:44 AM

Well Skittle, while I was waiting for your last reply, I Googled around looking for an answer. I downloaded LILI and was getting ready to set it up, but it turns out there is a hidden utility on the computer which will allow you to restore the OS. If you F9 at Boot up, you get to the option to restore to factory defaults. As I had nothing of any particular value on this little machine, I did it. So I am all ok now!!! Just downloading Opera now and I’ll set up my mail later. This is good. I thought the little machine was ready for the scrap heap, but here it is back to fight another day!!

Thanks for your help, BTW!

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