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 twice. Then exit to reboot.