Re: [SLUG] Man Page failure

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 07 2004 - 20:55:15 EST


On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 13:05:28 -0500, Knowles Burrell <kburrell3@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 09:50:21 -0800, Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Not sure what I did, but when I do a man page on something I get the
> > following failure I will use as a example doing a man on cat:
> >
> > gzip: Stdout: No space left on device
> > man: command '/bin/gzip -dc -user/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz >
> > /tmp/zman7Lj5Rhf' failed with exit status of 256
> >
> > gzip: Stdout: No space left on device
> > man: command '/bin/gzip -dc -user/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz >
> > /tmp/zmanrcPNkn' failed with exit status of 256
> > No manual entry for cat
> >
> > I have been installing some software and had a hangup. So I suspect that
> > something got corrupted but not surewhat
> > --
> > Chuck Hast
> > To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> > "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
> > out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> > and twisted metal."
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
> > Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
> > posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
> > official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
> >
>
> Probably a stupid question but have you made sure the disk space is there?
>

Well syslog.log and daemon.log were over 8m in size each. I recovered some
there but something else has to be using up so much space.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 18:22:13 EDT