Starting vi I get "/var/tmp/Ex0000005296" No such device or address

[mavenccie]

Hello All,
I need some assistance. When I start Vi I get the message "/var/tmp/Ex0000005296" No such device or address.
Also if I try to create a file by running "touch test" anywhere in the filesystem I get "touch: test cannot create" But it does create the file. Then if I remove that file I get the following error, "rm: test not removed: No such device or address".
If I change directory into /var, and run "ls", I get the following output. And Everything looks OK

NS1:/var# ls
audit dmi inet log mail nis preserve saf statmon yp
adm crash dt ld lost+found news ntp run snmp tmp
apache cron http ldap lp nfs opt sadm spool uucp


But when I run "ls -al" I get the following output.
NS1:/var# ls -al
./lost+found: No such device or address
./uucp: No such device or address
./dt: No such device or address
./nis: No such device or address
total 72
drwxr-xr-x 33 root sys 512 Nov 28 10:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 1024 Nov 28 10:43 ..
drwxrwxr-x 9 root sys 1024 Nov 25 03:10 adm
drwxr-xr-x 8 root bin 512 Apr 25 2001 apache
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Apr 25 2001 audit
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Nov 8 00:35 crash
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Apr 25 2001 cron
drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys 512 Apr 25 2001 dmi
drwxr-xr-x 4 root bin 512 Nov 14 16:01 http
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Apr 25 2001 inet
drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 512 Apr 25 2001 ld
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Apr 25 2001 ldap
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Nov 18 03:10 log
drwxrwxr-x 3 lp lp 512 Apr 25 2001 lp
drwxrwxrwt 3 root mail 512 Nov 14 00:34 mail
drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Apr 25 2001 news
drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Apr 25 2001 nfs
...
...
drwxrwxrwt 2 root sys 512 Nov 28 10:43 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 512 Apr 25 2001 yp

If I try to change directory to one of those directories that says "no such device or address", I get the following error, "ksh: dt: bad directory"

I am not sure what is going on. Any assistance would be much appreciated. And if I can provide more info., let me know.

 

[dynex]

I had a similar problem yesterday with this. I went through my /var/tmp directory and noticed files that weren't accessed for 2 years, which led me to believe they were temp files no longer being used. I erased those files.

Since then, I never had a problem with the message you described above.

 

[mavenccie]

I looked at the files in /var/tmp. Nothing was very old, but I did delete them. The problem is still there. Additionally, I have plenty of room on the /var partition.