The Problem: Insufficient memory left on /root partition. On inspection I found that it was happening because /var/log was growing till 35 GB (I have a root partition of 50 GB). On further inspection I found that /var/log/syslog was huge Following was the repeating line (error log that would quickly fill up my disk space) Jun 18 12:09:23 sudipbhandari-Latitude-5480 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1399]: Error: /bin/java not found Jun 18 12:09:23 sudipbhandari-Latitude-5480 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1399]: Error: /bin/java not found Jun 18 12:09:23 sudipbhandari-Latitude-5480 org.