yaourt errors No space left on device??? [SOLVED]

kaddy · 2009-12-11 12:12:29

Hi archers....
i've been using yaourt flawlessly ever since I installed arch.... but now, for some reason, everytime i try to install a package from AuR using
yaourt, I keep getting errors like this one.............

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

it happens everytime... heres a long list of that error with a different package i tried installing...

p: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/stage_speaker_cones.svg': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/stage_speakers.png': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/stage_speakers.svg': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/star1.png': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/star1.svg': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/star2.png': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/star2.svg': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/star.png': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/star.svg': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/start.ogg': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/string.png': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/string.svg': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/testi.dae': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/theme.ini': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/title.ttf': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/translations': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-kaddy/aur-fretsonfire/fretsonfire/pkg/usr/share/fretsonfire/data/win32': No space left on device
==> Tidying install...
-> Purging other files...
-> Compressing man and info pages...
-> Stripping debugging symbols from binaries and libraries...
==> Creating package...
-> Generating .PKGINFO file...
-> Compressing package...
bsdtar: Write error
==> ERROR: Failed to create package file.
Error: Makepkg was unable to build fretsonfire package.

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
[kaddy@archbox ~]$

is this a yaourt bug?

any ideas?
thanx

Last edited by kaddy (2009-12-11 16:09:33)

kaddy · 2009-12-11 12:44:59

might I add that I get the same errors about "no space on device' when trying to remove packages with Yaourt.....

toad · 2009-12-11 14:10:35

Well, is there any space left?

kaddy · 2009-12-11 15:17:32

Yes ofcoarse, lol.
i have a 500 gig harddrive and I haven't used hardly any of it.........

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00056ffa

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104422 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 46 265072+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 47 1003 7687102+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 1004 60801 480327435 83 Linux
[kaddy@archbox ~]$

I am able to manually install files from Aur with no problems... I only have problems when using Yaourt complaining about no space?
what the hell???
lol... im stumped on this one..... only thing i can think of is that yaourt is buggy..... but it worked fine before.. consistantly.....

so I havn't got a clue whats going on here really............. anybody have the same problem or know what is going on??

toad · 2009-12-11 15:28:15

Not sure what to do with your partition table but there you go. Better commands are df -h or du with all its flags to check disk usage. There is also xdiskusage.

Also, where does yaourt store its packages? It is not /var/cache/pacman/pkg, is it?

majiq · 2009-12-11 15:29:55

There's a known problem in the library that yaourt/pacman use that sometimes results in crazy large download files. Check your /var/pacman/pkg/cache (or whatever order that is supposed to be in) to see if you gained a crazy large file.

Alternatively, do a 'du -hs /*' as root.

kaddy · 2009-12-11 16:09:06

thanx guys..... maybe I did have too many files in my cache after all.... but im not sure how much it was taking up, as I did a "sudo pacman -Scc" which completely
cleared my cache before I checked what was taking up that space....... I can't imagine anything in there would of taken the 7gigs remaining on that partition though....
but none the less..... i am able to install using yaourt just fine now.......

ahwell, its all good now.
thanx.

Last edited by kaddy (2009-12-12 03:03:47)

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#1 2009-12-11 12:12:29

yaourt errors No space left on device??? [SOLVED]

#2 2009-12-11 12:44:59

Re: yaourt errors No space left on device??? [SOLVED]

#3 2009-12-11 14:10:35

Re: yaourt errors No space left on device??? [SOLVED]

#4 2009-12-11 15:17:32

Re: yaourt errors No space left on device??? [SOLVED]

#5 2009-12-11 15:28:15

Re: yaourt errors No space left on device??? [SOLVED]

#6 2009-12-11 15:29:55

Re: yaourt errors No space left on device??? [SOLVED]

#7 2009-12-11 16:09:06

Re: yaourt errors No space left on device??? [SOLVED]

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