[Gllug] Black screen, probably a KDE fault.

[John Edwards]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 06:38:52PM +0100, John G Walker wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:16:13 +0100 John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Send us please:
>> 
>> du -h --max-depth=1 /var
>> 
>> similarly for /tmp  and  / itself
> 
> Do you mean send the output? I can't get hold of a terminal console in
> this session. But it gives a list of stuff

Then dump to file using something like:
	sudo du -x -h --max-depth=1 / >& ~/du-output

And then you can attach then file to an email.


> However running it on / gives a very interesting result in that there
> are several files in /proc that it can't access. Is this where the
> problem is?

No, /proc is not a real filesytem. Neither is /sys, or /dev
if you use udev.

Use the '-x' option that John Hearns suggested to not read
across filesystems.


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