OK, so I should have made sure to get root access (http://wiki.maemo.org/Root_access) before I started installing packages from the development repository. Or I shouldn't have filled up / to 100%. But I have, and so far efforts to find some files that I have the privileges to delete to get a bit of working space so I can uninstall apps haven't worked. Disabling repositories (per http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=43) doesn't work for me as app manager is failing with "can't truncate lock at /var/lib/hildon-application-manager/apt-worker-lock".

Any suggestions on how to more forward short of full reinstall?

In the meantime, I will try and document some of application failures I am seeing and create some bugs so we can improve the experience of users with rootfs at 100%. A lot of things are still working, but a lot aren't....