Subject: Re: mosaic problem
To: None <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Daniel Senderowicz <daniel@synchrods.synchrods.COM>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/17/2000 12:38:27
If I run it as root, it seems to work, at least it doesn't print
those messages. I had other problems, probably related to the
fact that all the X stuff is not set up for the root login.

>	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