On 09/23/2011 09:16 PM, David Klann wrote:
> Hi Fred (and list),
>
> I encountered what I consider a mis-feature running Rivendell 2.0.2 on
> Debian this evening.
>
> This is a self-compiled instance of Rivendell from the distribution
> 2.0.2 tarball on Debian "wheezy" (aka "testing").
>
> The problem was that attempting to import audio tracks either through
> the rdlibrary GUI or through rdimport(1) was failing to import the
> entire track for any tracks longer than a few minutes in duration.
>
> The root cause of the problem was that Debian had kindly configured /tmp
> as a RAM file system (tmpfs) and the file system size was only 790MB.
> rdxport.cgi ran out of disk space in /tmp but did not "fail gracefully"
> on receiving the ENOSPC error when writing (for example)
> /tmp/rdaudioconvertbakGAJ/signed32_2.wav.
>
> I've taken the liberty to create a suggested change, but I haven't
> done more than recompile, install, and test rdxport.cgi from the
> command line. The patch may not be at all in line with your coding
> standards, but it suggests one possible way to deal with the issue.

Why did you have to recompile?  Wouldn't it have been easier to just 
edit fstab and give /tmp a couple gigs to work with instead of 740 mb? 
Or maybe add a physical /tmp partition of appropriate size?

-- 
Kevin Miller - http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
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