On Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 7:37:12 AM UTC-8, Erik Bray wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 8:07 PM John H Palmieri <jhpalm...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> 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. >
I don't know if I did that; maybe it depends on what "old" means. It happened to me with three different computers, at least one of which I don't use that much for Sage development, so either I got unlucky or it is easy for this error to reappear. To what extent should Sage try to catch the error and repair it if it occurs, or should it be up to individual users to notice and fix it on their own? I would suggest that if a bug in Sage is responsible for using up an extra 15 GB of disk space, then Sage should try to detect whether that disk space is being used (for example, by checking for the presence of the symlink) and either deleting all of the bad stuff, or at least warning the user that it's there. People who do not read sage-devel may not know about this, and if they have been doing incremental upgrades for a while, they may have this problem. Or they thought that it was fixed before and don't realize it's a problem again. > > > > 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? > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> 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. > >> > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. > >> > 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+...@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.
