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#1 2011-09-05 23:28:20

MetaMan
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[Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

All of a sudden when ever I try to use yaourt I get errors like this:

[jesse@ArchBook ~]$ yaourt -Syua 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
# ?????????
sort: fflush failed: standard output: No space left on device
sort: write error
sort: write failed: standard output: No space left on device
sort: write error
# End
 Foreign packages: | 16 / 16

==> Software upgrade (new version) :
aur/dropbox 1.1.43-1 -> 1.1.45-1

==> Continue upgrade ? [Y/n]
==> [V]iew package detail   [M]anually select packages
==> --------------------------------------------------
==> y

==> Downloading dropbox PKGBUILD from AUR...
# ?????????
==> ERROR: dropbox not found in AUR.
==> ERROR: unable to update
sort: fflush failed: standard output: No space left on device
sort: write error
sort: write failed: standard output: No space left on device
sort: write error
# End

Any ideas?

Thanks!

BTW: I have plenty of disk space tongue

Last edited by MetaMan (2011-09-06 01:11:55)


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#2 2011-09-05 23:55:04

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

MetaMan wrote:

I have plenty of disk space tongue

Prove it ;P

Are you building things in /tmp? Maybe it's full?

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#3 2011-09-06 00:17:40

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

karol wrote:
MetaMan wrote:

I have plenty of disk space tongue

Prove it ;P

Are you building things in /tmp? Maybe it's full?

Is there a quota placed on /tmp?

EDIT: Just checked /tmp. Everything (including hidden files) adds up to 11 bytes.

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#4 2011-09-06 00:20:17

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

MetaMan wrote:

Is there a quota placed on /tmp?

Not sure, but I've heard it's half the size of your RAM - it's true on my systems.

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#5 2011-09-06 00:21:41

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

I have ~500 megs for /tmp. And as noted above, only 11 bytes is used.


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#6 2011-09-06 00:30:07

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

MetaMan wrote:

I have ~500 megs for /tmp. And as noted above, only 11 bytes is used.

Sorry, haven't seen your edit.

Please post the output of

df -h
df -hi

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#7 2011-09-06 01:11:37

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

Wow. I just restarted and everything works fine now. How Windows-ish. *cringe*

Sorry if I wasted your time.

EDIT: And for the record, the output of those commands before I restarted STILL said the /tmp was nearly empty.

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#8 2011-09-06 01:13:53

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

MetaMan wrote:

Wow. I just restarted and everything works fine now.

You might have run out of some temporary scratch space - I thought it was /tmp but seems I was wrong.

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#9 2011-09-06 01:19:14

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

I can understand that... that's the first thing I checked. smile

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#10 2011-09-06 02:04:50

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

- /tmp is cleared on bootup if it isn't mounted on tmpfs (meaning it cleans itself).
- Adding up what you think is in /tmp and reading the output of `df -h' are likely very different
- ENOFS errors are hard to fake. They usually mean that... you're out of space.

Given that yaourt builds in /tmp and we've had a half dozen of these threads recently, I see no reason that your situation would be special. You ran out of space in /tmp.

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#11 2011-09-06 22:45:09

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

Hmmm... the output of df -h said /tmp was (just about) empty. My computer froze before I could post it, but then yaourt was working. What I thought was strange at the time is that it said '==> ERROR: dropbox not found in AUR.' The same error had showed up for everything else I tried installing.

Sorry if I sounded rude earlier; I was hoping to avoid that. I just thought that maybe we were focusing on the wrong thing. hmm

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#12 2011-09-25 23:20:37

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

I am getting the same message and have never got that before. When I looked into the /tmp issue, yes my temp if full...but why? I do not have a sepearte temp partition. Is this the same as the swap file? df -h listed below, It is just interesting that I have not had this probelm before.

Filesystem                                              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                                                     10M     0   10M   0% /dev
run                                                      10M  208K  9.8M   3% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2ede1a26-5618-41ab-82ad-545ad7557054   15G  7.3G  6.5G  53% /
shm                                                     937M  148K  937M   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                                                   937M  937M     0 100% /tmp
/dev/sda4                                               277G  6.3G  257G   3% /home
/dev/sda1                                                99M   17M   78M  18% /boot

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#13 2011-09-25 23:25:56

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

jeffreyldavidson wrote:

I do not have a sepearte temp partition

Seriously? Get your eyes checked. df clearly says you have a separate partition for /tmp.

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#14 2011-09-25 23:34:39

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

jeffreyldavidson wrote:

It is just interesting that I have not had this probelm before.

Were you doing the exact same thing as you are doing now? If you do something else, be prepared for different results.

jeffreyldavidson wrote:

yes my temp is full...but why?

How should I know? You tell me what's sitting there doing nothing.

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#15 2011-09-26 00:42:57

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

Yes, there is a tmp folder...OBVIOUSLY created by the system upon install...but a temp partition as I said earlier was not created. So my question was to the point that if I have 275+ Gig on my drive why is the folder space being limited to the 937 mb. Where did that limit come from?

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#16 2011-09-26 00:47:51

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

Arch Wiki wrote:

By default, a tmpfs partition has its maximum size set to half your total RAM, but this can be customized...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab#tmpfs


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#17 2011-09-26 00:51:21

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

jeffreyldavidson wrote:

So my question was to the point that if I have 275+ Gig on my drive why is the folder space being limited to the 937 mb.

I still don't know why is it full, what is in there. Let's assume you were building some packages. Well, you can build stuff outside /tmp too, so you can use that huge hard drive you have there.

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#18 2011-09-26 02:08:33

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Re: [Solved] Yaourt Issues: No space left on device

Thank you, now I feel like I am getting somewhere in the right direction.

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