I thought that this bug was fixed, but it has reappeared: the directory 'SAGE_ROOT/local/share/doc/sage' may be taking up many gigabytes of space. Please check to see if you're affected. See also #26612 for a possible fix.
John On Monday, August 27, 2018 at 1:46:25 AM UTC-7, Erik Bray wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 3:39 PM Sébastien Labbé <sla...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > On one machine, I get this: > > > > $ du -s -h local/share/doc/sage > > 20G /local/share/doc/sage > > > > on the other, I get this: > > > > $ du -s -h local/share/doc/sage > > 1,9G local/share/doc/sage > > > > I do not know why the bug affects only one? Thanks for sharing. > > This bug is already fixed, but if you did a build on the first machine > with a version where the bug did exist (specifically in the sagenb > package) then it will persist until and unless you delete > $SAGE_LOCAL/share/mathjax and reinstall the mathjax package. > Otherwise you'll just never see it in the first place. > > > On Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 10:13:11 PM UTC+2, John H Palmieri > wrote: > >> > >> I found that my Sage documentation directory was taking up 15GB of hard > drive space, because of a bug (which I think has been fixed, but I don't > remember where). The bug was caused by a recursive symlink > >> > >> local/share/mathjax/mathjax -> local/share/mathjax > >> > >> When the contents of local/share/mathjax were copied to various _static > directories in the html documentation, rather than just reproducing the > symlink, it created many layers of subdirectories; for example, > ca/intro/_static/mathjax/mathjax/mathjax/... Basically mathjax all the way > down. I don't know if this happened all at once, or once each time I built > the documentation. > >> > >> To see if you have this problem, see if you have the symlink. You might > also find out how much disk space local/share/doc/sage takes up (for > example, "du -s -h /path/to/SAGE_ROOT/local/share/doc/sage"). On my > computer, it is 1.9GB. If you are using up a lot more space than that, you > might have hit this bug. > >> > >> To fix: remove the symlink SAGE_ROOT/local/share/mathjax/mathjax. Then > run "make doc-clean" to remove the old documentation, and then run "make" > to rebuild the documentation. > >> > >> Question: > >> > >> - has the bug been fixed, or is that symlink still being created? > >> > >> -- > >> John > >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sage-devel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
