Root partition suddenly full while updating packages with Pacman

aldld · 2009-10-04 02:27:22

Hello

I'm not sure if this is a problem with Pacman, but my root partition seems to have become completely full while updating my system using pacman -Syu. Before updating anything, there seems to have been an update to a new version of Pacman (3.3.1-1) that needed to be installed before updating packages.

In the middle of the updates, I got this error:

error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/openoffice-base-3.1.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device

Also, I don't know if this is related, but I got a lot of 'not found' errors after that.

The entire output from everything:

~ $ sudo pacman -Syu
Password: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                      34.6K  101.4K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 extra                    427.5K  394.3K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 community                374.7K  362.2K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
    pacman  
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] y

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): pacman-3.3.1-1  

Total Download Size:    0.60 MB
Total Installed Size:   2.10 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from core...
 pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64    618.9K  455.6K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading pacman                              [#####################] 100%
~ $ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (42): taglib-extras-1.0.1-1  qt-4.5.3-2  liblastfm-0.3.0-4  
              loudmouth-1.4.3-1  libmtp-0.3.7-1.1  amarok-2.2.0-1  apr-1.3.9-1  
              db-4.8.24-1  apr-util-1.3.9-3  apache-2.2.13-3  bluez-4.54-1  
              python-2.6.3-1  dbus-python-0.83.0-2.1  device-mapper-2.02.53-1  
              eclipse-3.5.1-1  gpm-1.20.6-3  perl-5.10.1-3  groff-1.20.1-3  
              vim-7.2.266-1  gvim-7.2.266-2  heimdal-1.2.1-7  inkscape-0.46-13  
              iproute2-2.6.29-2  lib32-db-4.8.24-1  lib32-heimdal-1.2.1-7  
              libical-0.44-1  libsasl-2.1.23-2  lm_sensors-3.1.1-2  
              lvm2-2.02.53-1  nexuiz-data-2.5.2-1  nexuiz-2.5.2-1  
              redland-1.0.9-4  openoffice-base-3.1.1-2  pam-1.0.4-2  
              php-5.3.0-5  pstoedit-3.50-1  ruby-1.9.1_p243-2  soprano-2.3.1-1  
              texlive-bin-2009.4-1  texlive-core-2009.15574-1  wget-1.12-1  
              xchat-2.8.6-5  

Total Download Size:    1354.95 MB
Total Installed Size:   2035.02 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from core...
 db-4.8.24-1-x86_64         4.7M  432.0K/s 00:00:11 [#####################] 100%
 device-mapper-2.02....   479.0K  287.9K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
 gpm-1.20.6-3-x86_64      173.2K  243.7K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 perl-5.10.1-3-x86_64      13.5M  412.5K/s 00:00:33 [#####################] 100%
 groff-1.20.1-3-x86_64      4.1M  365.7K/s 00:00:12 [#####################] 100%
 heimdal-1.2.1-7-x86_64     2.8M  368.5K/s 00:00:08 [#####################] 100%
 iproute2-2.6.29-2-x...   489.0K  303.8K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
 libsasl-2.1.23-2-x86_64  118.5K  252.4K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 lvm2-2.02.53-1-x86_64    930.3K  327.3K/s 00:00:03 [#####################] 100%
 pam-1.0.4-2-x86_64       537.8K  289.5K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
 wget-1.12-1-x86_64       672.4K  308.0K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
 qt-4.5.3-2-x86_64         26.9M  418.8K/s 00:01:06 [#####################] 100%
 liblastfm-0.3.0-4-x...   223.4K  252.0K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 loudmouth-1.4.3-1-x...    80.8K  183.8K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 libmtp-0.3.7-1.1-x86_64  439.4K  309.5K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 amarok-2.2.0-1-x86_64     10.9M  486.0K/s 00:00:23 [#####################] 100%
 apr-1.3.9-1-x86_64       328.5K  332.4K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 apr-util-1.3.9-3-x86_64  237.6K  322.3K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'apache-2.2.13-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from archlinux.unixheads.org : Connection timed out
error: failed retrieving file 'apache-2.2.13-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'apache-2.2.13-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
 bluez-4.54-1-x86_64      671.6K  361.7K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
 python-2.6.3-1-x86_64     15.2M  442.0K/s 00:00:35 [#####################] 100%
 dbus-python-0.83.0-...   177.4K  225.6K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 eclipse-3.5.1-1-x86_64   162.0M  457.1K/s 00:06:03 [#####################] 100%
 vim-7.2.266-1-x86_64       8.6M  437.9K/s 00:00:20 [#####################] 100%
 gvim-7.2.266-2-x86_64   1115.4K  216.9K/s 00:00:05 [#####################] 100%
 inkscape-0.46-13-x86_64   18.4M  464.6K/s 00:00:41 [#####################] 100%
 libical-0.44-1-x86_64    281.3K  283.7K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 lm_sensors-3.1.1-2-...   133.2K  228.9K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 redland-1.0.9-4-x86_64   307.4K  275.7K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/openoffice-base-3.1.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'openoffice-base-3.1.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'openoffice-base-3.1.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/php-5.3.0-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'php-5.3.0-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'php-5.3.0-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/pstoedit-3.50-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'pstoedit-3.50-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'pstoedit-3.50-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ruby-1.9.1_p243-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'ruby-1.9.1_p243-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'ruby-1.9.1_p243-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/soprano-2.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'soprano-2.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'soprano-2.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/texlive-bin-2009.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'texlive-bin-2009.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'texlive-bin-2009.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/texlive-core-2009.15574-1-any.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'texlive-core-2009.15574-1-any.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'texlive-core-2009.15574-1-any.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xchat-2.8.6-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'xchat-2.8.6-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'xchat-2.8.6-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access))
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
~ $

Also, I haven't restarted my system yet. Should I try and see what happens?

Thanks!

skottish · 2009-10-04 02:32:02

Welcome to the forums aldld.

Unfortunately, these threads are growing in number, but they're hard to search for. Check out this thread and see if it helps:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=81134

Allan · 2009-10-04 02:33:52

How much space is left in the partition holding /var?

Anyway, it is probably this issue: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16359 A new pacman release is being made this weekend to fix that.

aldld · 2009-10-04 02:41:50

/var is the same partition as my root partition. Before running pacman -Syu, there was at least 10GB left. Now there's absolutely no space left.

This does seem to be the same issue that other people are having. I'll just wait for the next release, then.

For now, are there any files that I can safely delete, just to free up some space until then?

Thanks!

skottish · 2009-10-04 02:46:20

Anything that ends in ".part" in pacman's cache. So, as root:

rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*.part

aldld · 2009-10-04 02:54:51

Thanks for the help!

LeoSolaris · 2009-10-04 03:30:06

Mine actually had a *.part in /var/lib/pacman. (As an extra.db.part)

I, too, shall wait till Monday to use pacman.

skottish · 2009-10-04 03:59:02

LeoSolaris wrote:

Mine actually had a *.part in /var/lib/pacman. (As an extra.db.part)

I'm sure that this is right. I haven't had the problem so it's not fresh in my memory.

*** Hiya Kev ***

Nixie · 2009-10-05 17:15:25

This happened to me recently. I could not restart my laptop properly due to lack of space on my root partition.

The error during boot was along the lines of:-

Starting D-BUS system messagebus - Failed
Failed to start message bus: Failed to close "var/run/dbus.pid": No space left on drive
Hardware Abstraction Layer - Failed

everything else during the boot was as normal till I started to type in my username - but couldn't because the keyboard was inactive.

I used a Wolvix live CD to investigate and found a QT4 file in the packman cache which was 6.9GB in size (compared to the normal 27mb size). Once that was deleted and the drive/partition error checked everything was back to normal. So before you reboot I would definitely recommend clearing any oversize file out of your packman cache, or just clearing the whole cache.

Last edited by Nixie (2009-10-05 17:16:13)

mvdvarrier · 2009-10-05 17:35:52

My / partition have 24G space. But while updating all the space have been utilized by *.part. This happened to me when pppoe connection died while updating.
I deleted that *.part to recover the space.

combuster · 2009-10-06 18:26:25

I can confirm this also, it filled up my 40GB root partition with 27GB part file. I was tripped out and using sysrescue cd I've fsck-ed sda1 and was surprised to see it's error free. Then I've guessed pacman messed it up and located the part file rm-ed it and everything is ok now...

toad · 2009-10-06 18:38:16

I think this thread may provide you with a solution to all your troubles:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=29555

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