Startx Doesn't Work

[Rechard]

When I start up my Raspberry Pi it goes through its normal list of start ups and then for the last few days it has been showing [warn] Root filesystem has insufficient free space mounting tmpfs on /tmp ... (warning) Then after i logged in and type in startx the screen goes blank and then i'm back where i was. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME!!!

[DeeJay]

If this is an RPi running Raspbian as its Operating System, did you use the facility in raspi-config to expand the filesystem to use all the space on the card?

If not, run -

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sudo raspi-config

and do it now.

(If you are not sure, run -

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df -h

and see if the figures correspond with the size of the SD card you are using.)

If the filesystem is using all the SD card space but you have filled it, we will have to guide you through finding large or unwanted files that you can delete.

[redhawk]

How big is your memory card??

Richard S.

[Rechard]

After i posted the topic i cleaned up my raspberry pi and the warning was gone so my startx worked. When i got into my desktop i followed a piece in the raspberry pi user guide to re size my partitions but after i did that i restarted my raspberry pi and when it went on again the screen was blank and only the power light was on so i put of my pi and put my SD card into my laptop and it was cleaned up and not even expanded anymore. Do i have sd card corruption? and if how can i get my pi back to the way it was when i first put it on.

[DeeJay]

i may be old and english is my mother tongue but i was taught to use punctuation and capital letters because it makes it easier to read long sentences without getting confused and having to reread lots of times to understand

i followed a piece in the raspberry pi user guide to re size my partitions

Which piece? Page 77 explains how to use raspi-config, as suggested earlier. Is that what you did?

how can i get my pi back to the way it was when i first put it on.

We would need to know what version of what operating system you were using, and how it was installed, to be able to answer that question.

[Rechard]

Sorry about my way of writing everything.

I used Debian Wheezy and I installed it via a pre-installed SD card that you can buy from rs components.
Oh and the page I got it from was in chapter five:Partition Management.

[amyren]

When I start up my Raspberry Pi it goes through its normal list of start ups and then for the last few days it has been showing [warn] Root filesystem has insufficient free space mounting tmpfs on /tmp ... (warning) Then after i logged in and type in startx the screen goes blank and then i'm back where i was. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME!!!

I got the exact same warning on my raspberry during startup. (Raspian image)

I do have a 8GB SD card, and it is expanded to use the whole card, and shows that there are still 3.5G free when I use the "df -h" command. Still I do get that message on startup.
Apearently everything runs fine, xbmc, startx etc. But what could be the cause of that warning, when I do have lots of free space?

Edit: The above happened to me after performing an update/upgrade. I noticed then there was on error message during the upgrade as well.
Now I did revert to the image backup i I made just before the upgrade, and then applied a new upgrade - this time no errors was shown, and the warning message is gone