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leonardof

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Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 66

[solved] Zotero fails to load, Dropbox fails to sync

One day, when I tried using Zotero, it failed to load, with this error message:

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520010 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NO_DEVICE_SPACE) [mozIStorageConnection.executeSimpleSQL]" nsresult: "0x80520010 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NO_DEVICE_SPACE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/db.js :: Zotero.DBConnection.prototype.query :: line 149" data: no] [QUERY: INSERT INTO itemTypesCombined SELECT itemTypeID, typeName, display, 0 AS custom FROM itemTypes UNION SELECT customItemTypeID + 10000 AS itemTypeID, typeName, display, 1 AS custom FROM customItemTypes] [ERROR: database or disk is full]

At the same time, Dropbox stopped syncing, complaining of a generic permission error, pointing to a web page describing a failure which could be brought by just about any issue. The funny thing is, the page suggested excluding the computer from the user account in Dropbox, possibly excluding ~/.dropbox as well, but unexpectedly the computer application didn't volunteer to connect to a profile or to create a new one.

Adam Smith (not the dead one!) and Dan Stillmanm helped me find the cause, and it was... a full root partition.

For all of us using Arch Linux, if Zotero or Dropbox stop working because of a permission error, the first step seems to be cleaning pacman's cache.