No usable temporary directory found

Question

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

Answer 1

I got this when my root drive (/dev/sda1) was corrupted on my Ubuntu.

Rebooted, got the error /dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors.

Followed instructions here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/885062/root-file-system-requires-manual-fsck, which was to fsck -y <dev/xxx reported to have error> twice. Then exit to reboot.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

I got the same issue when there was no space on /.

Issue:

File "/usr/lib64/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', '/']  [FAILED] 

[root@master hue]# df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/vg_master-lv_root

             35G   34G     0 100%     /

tmpfs
7.8G 72K 7.8G 1% /dev/shm

/dev/sda1
477M 34M 418M 8% /boot

When I cleared out some space then it worked fine for me.

[root@master log]# service hue start

Starting hue: [ OK ]

[root@master log]#

Answer 4

This error can occur when the file system has been switched to read-only mode.

Answer 5

definately a disk space issue,

on terminal, type df -h you should see output like below ( notice the 100% on one of the filesystems)

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            992M     0  992M   0% /dev
tmpfs           200M   21M  179M  11% /run
/dev/xvda1      7.8G  7.8G  0  100% /
tmpfs          1000M     0 1000M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs          1000M     0 1000M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           200M     0  200M   0% /run/user/997
tmpfs           200M     0  200M   0% /run/user/1042

in this case, you need to make space by deleting files, artifacts folders e.t.c on path root /

Answer 6

I had the same issue on the Windows 7x64 machine. It was OK with disk space and permissions.

When I excecuted

tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='MyPrefix_')

manually in python console the directory %TEMP%\MyPrefix_xxxx was successfully created. But when I did the same from script I received the error IOError: [Errno 2] No usable temporary directory found in [...].

I solved the problem using dir parameter:

 # '.' is a default value for example
 tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='MyPrefix_', dir=os.environ.get('TEMP', '.')) 

After that from script it worked well.