B.4. Programs are failing oddly. What's going on?Programs can fail oddly for a number of possible reasons, but a common explanation is that you're out of disk space. Check the disk usage in a Terminal with the df command: [kermit@swinetrek ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 12G 1.8G 8.8G 17% / /dev/hda2 99M 9.8M 84M 11% /boot /dev/shm 62M 0 62M 0% /dev/shm [kermit@swinetrek ~]$ The Used and Avail columns show how much space is used and available on each partition on your machine . If a partition is nearly or completely full, it may be the cause of your problem; find some files to delete from that partition to see if it helps. Good candidates are log files , which are stored in the /var/log directory. |