[Leaplist] help with Xforwarding

[Kyle Gonzales]

Ray,

No the problem is that you do NOT have plenty of disk space left, one
the most important partition.  See the following from your post:

/dev/sda1             5.8G  5.6G     0 100% /

Your root filesystem is full.  As your /tmp directory is located there
and not on a separate partitions, X cannot create some temp files it
needs to start, and therefore it will not do so.

You will need to remove whatever you can to free up space.  Do you have
multiple kernels installed?  Removing older ones if you do not need them
and get you some space.  Old core files in root (if they exist) could be
removed.  Just some suggestions to get you started.

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 10:18 -0500, Ray Brunkow wrote:
> tried to ssh -X into my home NFS box (the old game box) after apt-get 
> update/upgrade, yes did both, to see if my X was working yet or not...
> 
> I got the following errors.  I know that it states not authorized, what 
> file do i need to edit to change xforwarding from no to yes?  this is 
> debian testing, or so it is supposed to be i think/know i have bothced 
> it rather well, running KDE.
> 
> -------------------------
> ssma$ ssh -X -p 922 ray at ssmahome.mine.nu
> Password:
> Linux p4ssmahome 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686
> 
> The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
> the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
> individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
> 
> Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
> permitted by applicable law.
> You have new mail.
> Last login: Sat Nov 11 09:44:39 2006 from fl-69-68-7-4.sta.embarqhsd.net
> ray at p4ssmahome:~$ startx
> /usr/bin/startx: line 131: cannot create temp file for here document: No 
> space left on device
> /usr/bin/startx: line 149: cannot create temp file for here document: No 
> space left on device
> /usr/bin/startx: line 149: cannot create temp file for here document: No 
> space left on device
> 
> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> giving up.
> xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  unexpected signal 2.
> Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
> ray at p4ssmahome:~$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             5.8G  5.6G     0 100% /
> devshm                506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda2              89M   31M   54M  37% /boot
> /dev/sda3              68G   56G  8.2G  88% /home
> /dev/sdb2             183G  101G   73G  58% /sharedisk
> /dev/hdb1              56G   12G   41G  23% /stuffdisk
> --------------------------
> 
> so i have plenty of disk space, but what in the world is devshm?  that 
> is new, and how did my / get to 100%??? and how do i find out what i 
> need to remove?
> 
> uname -a
> Linux p4ssmahome 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> oh that was with the 2.6.11, i also have the 2.6.15 kernel installed, 
> just tried the older kernel to see if X would work, it is not on either 
> of them.  sorry can not post the local errors as im not at the house atm 
> to do so.
> 
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