Installing a very large package crashes my X session

Gooberpatrol66 · 2015-09-17 14:26:25

This is weird. I'm trying to install https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/quartus-free/ but when the process gets to Extracting Sources the screen goes blank, I see a login prompt, when I login again all my programs are closed, and the computer is extremely laggy until I restart it.

Since the package is so big I've been expanding /tmp with
sudo mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp -o size=15000M,mode=1777,remount

I have 140G of free disk space. Is something using up too much ram? The task manager reports nothing unusual until the crash happens. What's going on?

alphaniner · 2015-09-17 14:40:41

Tmpfs uses RAM and swap, free disk space is irrelevant.

Gooberpatrol66 · 2015-09-17 15:28:48

Yeah as I look more into this, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/159356 seems extremely relevant, though the system reports no high memory usage before the crash

Gooberpatrol66 · 2015-10-12 15:08:49

Alright so now i changed it to

sudo mount /tmp -o size=15000M,mode=1777,remount

so it will store it on the disk but it still crashes the system when it gets to Extracting package...

Scimmia · 2015-10-12 15:11:03

So stop building in tmpfs and see what happens.

Gooberpatrol66 · 2015-10-12 22:30:58

Yeah that's what I did

Jristz · 2015-10-12 23:22:29

Gooberpatrol66 wrote:

Yeah that's what I did

And it work?

Scimmia · 2015-10-13 03:57:12

Based on the command you posted, no, you didn't.

Gooberpatrol66 · 2015-10-14 16:09:21

Scimmia wrote:

Based on the command you posted, no, you didn't.

See

Gooberpatrol66 wrote:

Alright so now i changed it to
sudo mount /tmp -o size=15000M,mode=1777,remount
so it will store it on the disk but it still crashes the system when it gets to Extracting package...

I've verified in the file manager that it's downloading the package to the hard drive, so unless I'm doing something wrong...

Trilby · 2015-10-14 16:16:43

That command doesn't specify a device, so it would just use fstab and/or defaults which is to have tmp as tmpfs. So no you didn't stop building in tmpfs.

I'm also not sure how a file manager would tell you which device was being written to.

Rather than all this hard-way-around guessing, just stop messing with mount options and building in /tmp/ and be done with it. Build somewhere in your home directory.

Gooberpatrol66 · 2015-10-14 16:37:27

Trilby wrote:

Rather than all this hard-way-around guessing, just stop messing with mount options and building in /tmp/ and be done with it. Build somewhere in your home directory.

How do I do that?

WorMzy · 2015-10-14 16:42:48

How do I do that?

Let me guess, you use yaourt or something without actually knowing what you're doing?

Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg

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#1 2015-09-17 14:26:25

Installing a very large package crashes my X session

#2 2015-09-17 14:40:41

Re: Installing a very large package crashes my X session

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#4 2015-10-12 15:08:49

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