Subject: Re: mosaic problem
To: Daniel Senderowicz <daniel@synchrods.synchrods.COM>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/17/2000 19:23:28
	Is the one with the problem running on a partition with
	more than 2GB free?


		David/absolute

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Daniel Senderowicz wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm struggling with a problem with mosaic. Here it goes:
> 
> I have 1.4.1 (with the 1.4.2_ALPHA kernel) and 1.4.2_ALPHA in
> two identical machines DECStation 5000/240 with the same disks
> (9.1GB). The mosaic version already compiled is 2.7b5. I
> installed it on these machines at different times, within a few
> weeks of difference.  The problem that I'm having is that the
> one that I installed first (with 1.4.1) keeps giving me at the
> bottom of the window a message saying:
> 
> "Can't open temporary file -- Serious Problem".
> 
> and
> 
> "Insufficient temporary disk space; could not transfer data"
> 
> Disk space is not really a problem in this machine, unless
> mosaic is trying to write big stuff in the root partition where
> I have 62k blocks. However I have the same in the machine that
> is working OK. I couldn't find what could be different between
> the two machines that makes this to happen.  Nor I don't know
> where is mosaic trying to write in order to check in that area.
> 
> I will appreciate any pointers.
> 
> Dan
>