On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 8:07 PM John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

It might have re-occurred for you (or anyone) if you changed to an old
branch and re-built.


> 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> 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?
>> >>
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>> >> John
>> >>
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