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No usable temporary directory found

I am trying to find a temp directory , but when i am trying to get the directory using

tempfile.gettempdir()

it's giving me error of

 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tempfile.py", line 254, in gettempdir
    tempdir = _get_default_tempdir()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tempfile.py", line 201, in _get_default_tempdir
    ("No usable temporary directory found in %s" % dirlist))
IOError: [Errno 2] No usable temporary directory found in ['/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/usr/tmp', '/home/openerp/openerp-server']

The permission on the directory is 777 owned by root.

Solution

  • This kind of error occured in two case

    1. permission(should be drwxrwxrwt and owened by root)
    2. space

    To check space(disk usage)just run the command on terminal 

    df -h

    Will list the disk usage on unix and get the output like 

    Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5        28G   15G   12G  58% /

    If the root(mounted on /) usage is 100%.

    You need to clean the tmp directory or restart the machine or make some space on the root.