I've got a little problem.
After installing the latest upadates Ubuntu 13.10 (IIRC) and rebooting, I can access the GUI log-in interface, but after entering my password the monitor remains black with the cursor in the middle. I can move it though, but nothing more happens.
Since I knew there was pretty less space available, I think the problem might be that the harddrive is just full and therefore Ubuntu can't be loaded fully. I now made a LiveCD and booted from it. Everything went fine and I can access the HDD and see most of the folders. Here comes the tricky part. If I want to open a folder at one point I get the notification that I don't have the permission to access this folder or file.
The plan was to use the LiveCD to access the files and delete some to free some space and then reboot. Since this isn't working I don't know what to do anymore.
Thanks in advance for your help.
cheers
Update 1: When I look at ls -l the output of some of the directories which I then can't access is
drwx------
df -h
to confirm that you are actually running out of space? As for deleting files with the LiveCD, try usingsudo
to remove the directory as root. Runsudo nautilus
to use Nautilus orsudo rm
on the command line.df -h
and there is no space available. I usedsudo nautilus
for using it to remove the file. The only option available was "Move to Trash". The file was ~2-5 GB big, but after runningdf -h
again, there is no change so far. Thought about usingsudo rm
but can't access the directory in which I want to delete the file.