What happens if you cd to / and try running it as root?

		David/absolute

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Daniel Senderowicz wrote:

> Here are the setups:
> 
> /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/rz0a / ffs rw 1 1
> /dev/rz0b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/rz0d /usr ffs rw 1 2
> /kern /kern kernfs rw
> 
> # df -k
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/rz0a       31469    24039     5856    80%    /
> /dev/rz0d     8282050   517320  7350627     6%    /usr
> kernfs              1        1        0   100%    /kern
> 
> # df -k /var/tmp
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/rz0a       31469    24040     5855    80%    /
> 
> >	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
> >> 
> >
> >
>