# cd /var/lib/apt && ls -la drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 304 Jan 31 13:45 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 2064 Jan 20 23:55 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8610 Jan 30 02:22 extended_states drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 Sep 22 03:22 periodic i have 91 percent of the rootfs drive taken up. last time i posted this that is what somebody though but i have room On 2/18/10, Gunter Ohrner <G.Ohrner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (Disclaimer: I've not yet received my N900, so I've no idea of how it > works internally. ;) > > Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: >>> (...) >>> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists.new/lock - >>> open >>> (2 No such file or directory) >>> (...) >>> of the dev. apps that i installed filled up my root drive to much >>> and something bad happened. any help is greatly appreciated. > >> It looks like this /var/lib/apt/lists.new directory is a temporary >> directory that is created to replace /var/lib/apt/lists after >> refreshing the repos. You can probably just "rm -rf > > However, the error message sounds more as if creating the directory > fails for some reason. > > Daniel, is there sufficient free space on your root partition? > > What does /var/lib/apt look like (cd /var/lib/apt && ls -la .)? > > However, if the rootfs space exhaustion was so bad it broke apt, it > might have caused other trouble as well... > > Greetings, > > Gunter > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- DY _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
