can't download anything! (only when i save from Firefox)

Hi :)

On the top taskbar please click on

System - Administration - Computer Janitor

also check your wastebin on the bottom right-hand taskbar is empty and empty the wastebin in your emailing program. Then open a terminal console to access the command-line
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

and type in

sudo fdisk -l

where the " -l" is a lower-case " -L". Please copy & paste the info from there into here. Then type in

sudo parted

that will take a while to scan your partitions when it gives you the new prompt type in

print

and copy&paste the info from there into here then back in the terminal type in

quit

and close the terminal console.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

sorry ya it not working

prassu,

make sure you're the owner of your /home/user directory.

Your username should appear when typing:
ls -al

e.g. if your username is prassu it would look like this
drwx------ 6 prassu prassu 4096 2008-12-15 22:44 .mozilla

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Trash is located here:
/home/username/.local/share/Trash

btw. this will show you disk usage (in human language):
df -h

sorry cont able to reply yestarday, thanks to tom and sam for reply. but i have still problem with downloading .
I did not understand properly what tom had said . well i am new user to linux

Ahh, i had a complicated & kludgy way of getting the info that Sam's answer got much more elegantly. Ignore my previous answer and just get to a command-line
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal#Starting%20a%20Terminal
and into there type in Sam's suggestion

df -h

then copy & paste the result of that into here.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

u mean to say want to copy and paste

prasanna@prassu-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 9.9G 5.8G 3.6G 63% /
tmpfs 498M 0 498M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 498M 212K 497M 1% /var/run
varlock 498M 0 498M 0% /var/lock
udev 498M 164K 497M 1% /dev
tmpfs 498M 484K 497M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 498M 2.4M 495M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/v

Yes, thanks for that but it doesn't show the problem i was expecting. I was expecting one of them to say 100% full. The highest is 63% which should be ok.

Ok, the next idea is to copy&paste the result of

ls -al

Thanks, good luck and regards from
Tom :)

prassu,
this
/dev/sda8 9.9G 5.8G 3.6G 63% /
doesn't look good to me.
First, there is no separate /home partition, hence what's left for the whole system isn't very much.
You may try to clean up. Here is a tutorial
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoverLostDiskSpace

A simple option is to remove the trash content. If you - move - a file to the trash it's still there and uses space untill you delete it from the trash.

Second, please clear the package cache (the one where Synaptic keeps downloaded packages).
Copy and paste the command as is:
sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoclean

##It will ask for your password (the one which you login with), you wont see anything while typing, but it will be recognized.
Afterwards press [Enter]

Now you may check again disk usage:
df -h

prasanna@prassu-desktop:~$ ls -al
total 30744
drwxr-xr-x 56 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-25 03:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-07-29 09:05 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 13745012 2009-07-27 18:15 AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 13745012 2009-07-27 18:15 AdobeAIRInstaller.bin.1
drwxr-xr-x 4 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-14 16:12 .aMule
drwxr-xr-x 5 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-20 09:26 .avast
drwxr-xr-x 10 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-05 10:16 .azureus
-rw------- 1 prasanna prasanna 6396 2009-08-24 19:59 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 220 2009-07-29 09:05 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 3115 2009-07-29 09:05 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-15 05:34 Best Hacking tools for top hackers and geeks ebooks french 2009 avi mkv rip pirate
drwxr-xr-x 5 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-05 09:33 .blender
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 1582637 2009-08-05 08:36 brasero-session.log
drwx------ 7 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-15 05:10 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-07 09:59 .checkbox
drwx------ 3 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-29 09:11 .compiz
drwxr-xr-x 14 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-21 17:21 .config
drwx------ 3 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-29 09:11 .dbus
drwxr-xr-x 5 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-24 05:27 Desktop
-rw------- 1 prasanna prasanna 2 2009-08-25 03:02 .dmrc
-rw------- 1 prasanna prasanna 2 2009-08-11 04:33 .dmrc.U79JYU
drwxr-xr-x 4 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-29 09:07 Documents
-rw------- 1 prasanna prasanna 16 2009-07-29 09:11 .esd_auth
drwxr-xr-x 8 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-03 08:02 .evolution
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 357 2009-07-29 09:05 examples.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 6976 2009-07-29 09:07 .face
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 1580827 2009-08-23 18:05 Firefox_wallpaper.png
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-04 07:20 .fontconfig
drwxr-xr-x 5 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-25 03:02 .gconf
drwx------ 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-25 03:08 .gconfd
drwx------ 4 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-01 15:18 .gegl-0.0
drwxr-xr-x 22 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-04 18:31 .gimp-2.6
-rw-r----- 1 prasanna prasanna 0 2009-08-24 17:08 .gksu.lock
drwx------ 15 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-24 20:33 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-29 09:11 .gnome2_private
drwx------ 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-14 14:07 .gnupg
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 120 2009-08-05 04:23 .goutputstream-I3SCYU
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-03 08:30 .gpilotd
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 4 2009-08-21 16:58 .gpilotd.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-09 09:09 .gstreamer-0.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 120 2009-08-25 03:02 .gtk-bookmarks
dr-x------ 2 prasanna prasanna 0 2009-08-25 03:02 .gvfs
-rw------- 1 prasanna prasanna 11814 2009-08-25 03:02 .ICEauthority
drwxr-xr-x 3 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-03 10:11 .icons
drwx------ 3 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-02 21:10 .kde
drwx------ 3 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-29 10:28 .local
drwxr-xr-x 4 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-29 09:45 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-03 08:30 .mplayer
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-05 07:32 .MultiGet
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-29 09:07 Music
drwxr-xr-x 3 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-29 09:11 .nautilus
drwx------ 3 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-04 08:02 .netx
drwxr-xr-x 3 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-31 14:41 .openoffice.org
drwx------ 10 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-21 16:59 .opera
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-09 10:46 Pictures
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 192 2009-08-06 10:13 pp
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 111 2009-08-04 14:35 pp~
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 675 2009-07-29 09:05 .profile
drwx------ 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-25 03:02 .pulse
-rw------- 1 prasanna prasanna 256 2009-07-29 09:11 .pulse-cookie
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-05 09:28 .qt
-rw------- 1 prasanna prasanna 1523 2009-08-01 15:24 .recently-used
-rw------- 1 prasanna prasanna 1344 2009-08-24 20:33 .recently-used.xbel
drwxrwx--- 3 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-04 10:09 .sane
drwx------ 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-04 09:48 .scim
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 104 2009-08-03 05:03 sds
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 113022 2009-08-04 07:24 showthread.php.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 311 2009-08-10 22:54 sms
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 311 2009-08-10 22:31 sms~
drwx------ 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-03 03:53 .ssh
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 0 2009-07-29 09:47 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x 4 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-06 13:35 .sudoku
drwx------ 3 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-03 04:53 .synaptic
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-29 09:11 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 29 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-14 14:15 .themes
drwx------ 5 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-01 21:07 .thumbnails
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 297442 2009-08-04 07:42 To Do List After installing Ubuntu 9.04 aka Jaunty Jackalope « The Indexer.html
drwxr-xr-x 4 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-23 18:04 .tomboy
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 5077 2009-08-23 18:14 .tomboy.log
drwx------ 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-07 09:50 .tsclient
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-29 09:46 .update-manager-core
drwx------ 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-09 04:25 .update-notifier
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 210 2009-08-07 09:44 .usb-creator.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-07-29 09:11 Videos
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-21 16:56 .wapi
drwxr-xr-x 4 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-08 06:23 .wine
-rw------- 1 prasanna prasanna 127 2009-08-25 03:02 .Xauthority
drwxr-xr-x 2 prasanna prasanna 4096 2009-08-05 10:08 .xine
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 129 2009-08-04 09:54 .xscreensaver-getimage.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 3581 2009-08-25 03:03 .xsession-errors
prasanna@prasanna-desktop:~$

thamks for reply for both tom and sam

for sam

prasanna@prasanna-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
prasanna@prasanna-desktop:~$

after disk cleaning

prasanna@prasanna-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 9.9G 5.8G 3.6G 62% /
tmpfs 498M 0 498M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 498M 212K 497M 1% /var/run
varlock 498M 0 498M 0% /var/lock
udev 498M 164K 497M 1% /dev
tmpfs 498M 468K 497M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 498M 2.4M 495M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile

Now try to upgrade your system... open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
(Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

and if is needed, then please reboot your system, type

sudo reboot

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

hi marcobra

shall i gave yes[y] to continue for sudo apt-get upgrade

prasanna@prasanna-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
  linux-restricted-modules-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kdelibs5
  kdelibs5-data libcurl3-gnutls libgnutls26 libpurple-bin libpurple0
  libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 libxml2 libxml2-utils
  linux-libc-dev linux-restricted-modules-common openjdk-6-jre
  openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib pidgin pidgin-data python-libxml2
23 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 63.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 590kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Ok... answer y or press simply "Enter".

After the upgrade how many space do you have on your partitions... please copy and paste here the result of:

df -h

terminal command

yes

prasanna@prasanna-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 9.9G 5.7G 3.7G 62% /
tmpfs 498M 0 498M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 498M 212K 497M 1% /var/run
varlock 498M 0 498M 0% /var/lock
udev 498M 164K 497M 1% /dev
tmpfs 498M 468K 497M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 498M 2.2M 496M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/volatile

Seems good now please also copy and paste the result of ... this terminal command...

dpkg -l | grep -i linux-image

Thank you

prasanna@prasanna-desktop:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i linux-image
ii linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic 2.6.28-11.42 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.28 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic 2.6.28-15.49 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.28 on x86
ii linux-image-generic 2.6.28.15.20 Generic Linux kernel image

You can get some space removing the unused kernel

linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
(Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )

sudo aptitude purge linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic linux-headers-2.6.28-11

(the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

Hope this helps

You can also use bleachbit to deeply clean your system... http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/ is a regular Ubuntu package but i suggest you to install the deb package from here http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/download/linux

Then i see you have azureus and amule installed please also keep them with not a lot of downloaded and shared files... please consider to add an external via usb or internal (better) hard-disk to your pc...

Hope this helps

The latest suggestion: please also force a complete hard disk partition check

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

sudo touch /forcefsck

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then at next reboot of your pc the hard disk will be checked.

Hope this helps

thanks marcobra

i removed unused kernel ,by suggested by u .

but second one i have same problem . when i gave saveas it wont save to any destination . simply it will sit calm

Ok please force the hard-disk check see previous answer and perform it rebooting your pc...

Answer yes if the system ask you to correct errors...

Then retry...

ya i had done hard disk partion checjk . the system did not ask for error correct

Please try to write a file using this terminal command...

cd $HOME
find . > files.txt

wait... command will do a lot of works and then copy and paste here the result of this command

ls -l files.txt

Thank you

prasanna@prasanna-desktop:~$ ls -l files.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 prasanna prasanna 359400 2009-08-25 05:38 files.txt

So you can write to your home directory using terminal... please tell wich file can't you write... please tell the complete path...

We can also open the just wrote file make some changes and rewrote it...

Type
gedit files.txt
make some change and save it...

Thank you

In my pc file will save when i gave save as , but when i want to download any ting from net,it wont save,
for example , usually i keep reading some notes, in wikepidea, because of my limited broad band plan i copy the sheet and (file->save pageas)and paste in disk later when i free i usually read ,
that is first thing and when i copy some wallpapers when i gave save as it wont save , when i came to software dowload when i gave save as wont save , but torrent is working,

So you have ONLY write issue when you are trying to save from Firefox...?

Please confirm

yes

hope i am not distrubing lot!

thank god its working ya thanks thanks thanku,thanku very much

So please close this question marking it as Solved and use the suggestion in this answer to keep your system clean... ;-)

Thank you

I have modified the original Question to the other readers... with the same issue...

Hope this helps

once again thanks ,bye

Thanks marcobra (Marco Braida), that solved my question.

I just started using Feisty Fawn as my intro to Ubuntu. Problem: All my Downloads are directed to my desktop. How do I reroute them to a nother location such as my disk? Thank You.

Hi :)

Open Firefox & click on

Edit - Preferences - General

About halfway down the page should be a "browse" button or you can just type in the path to where you want things saved.

Feisty Fawn 7.10 is out-of-date now & unsupported so it is not really a fair example of how Ubuntu works. The repositories where all the software is kept are all closed for Feisty so it will be difficult for you to find any software to work on it. It does have the slight advantage of working on lower-end hardware but in linux it is always better to choose a different distro rather than use old versions. For example Puppy can work on Pentium II machines and get them working with full wireless, wiifi & bluetooth. Wolvix Hunter is my prefferred distro on anything more advanced than a Pentium II
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix
but there are many other choices. DistroWatch keeps the most up-to-date list of different versions worth trying
http://distrowatch.com

If your machine has around 1GHz cpu speed & over 1Gb of ram then Ubuntu is probably the best choice, especially as a first journey into linux-land. In just under 3weeks time Ubuntu 10.04 LTS gets released but you can try it early just to see how well it works. This would be a much better test of how well Ubuntu works as there is a lot of software already available for it
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/testing/lucid/beta1

Normally i would advise using the latest "stable" version rather than a beta release but because the release date is due so soon & because 10.04 is an LTS release rather than a normal release it would be better to go with the 10.04 as soon as possible. To download the normal stable release ...
http://www.ubuntulinux.org

If the problem is a limited connection that doesn't let you download 800Mb easily then wait 3 weeks and then use this free service
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
but it takes a long time for the Cd to get delivered so if you want it faster try this link to buy an official cd
https://shop.canonical.com/index.php?cPath=17

Good luck and welcome in to linux-land from
Tom :)