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/usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file

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I receive this message when logging in:

/usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file

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Your home directory disk quota is full. You may check your quota with myquota.

You will need to free up space in your home directory.

ncdu command is a convenient interactive tool to examine disk usage. Consider running ncdu $HOME to analyze where the bulk of the usage is. With this knowledge, you could then archive your data elsewhere (e.g. your research group's Data Depot space, or Fortress tape archive), or delete files you no longer need.

There are several common locations that tend to grow large over time and are merely cached downloads.  The following are safe to delete if you see them in the output of ncdu $HOME:


/home/myusername/.local/share/Trash
/home/myusername/.cache/pip
/home/myusername/.conda/pkgs
/home/myusername/.singularity/cache
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