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 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]#