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 ran into this issue earlier today. I started a query embedded in jupyter before going to lunch, and I returned to jupyter throwing some type of error (can't remember what it was exactly). When I tried restarting jupyter in the terminal, I got the error described in OP's question (no usable temporary directory). The answers above didn't work, so I tried restarting my entire VM, at which point I got the error described here. After following the instructions in that thread's top answer, the problem was resolved.

Answer 2

Problem can also occur if inode are full.

You can type df -i

# df -i
Filesystem      Inodes   IUsed  IFree IUse% Mounted on
udev            253841     322 253519    1% /dev
tmpfs           255838     430 255408    1% /run
/dev/xvda1     5120000 5120000      0  100% /
tmpfs           255838       1 255837    1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           255838       7 255831    1% /run/lock
tmpfs           255838      16 255822    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           255838       4 255834    1% /run/user/1000

Answer 3

I had the same problem while running a python script in Docker. The following command fixed it for me:

docker rmi $(docker images --quiet --filter "dangling=true")