Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-23 Thread John Bleichert
On 10/22/2014 07:10 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: The faulty package is system-config-printer which linterally creates millions of files in /tmp [1]. As as side-effect, you'll see that rebooting your system can take ages, when /tmp is being cleaned up [2] and you likely see output like this: "a st

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 22.10.2014 um 21:53 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 15:45:58, John Bleichert wrote: >> >> This is the second time this has happened, so something is eating up inodes >> on /. I am going to run some aptitude tests and see what happens. >> >> Any idea what the OS is doing during boot t

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread John Bleichert
On 10/22/2014 03:55 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, John Bleichert wrote: Try a df -i You may have run out of inodes Iain: Bingo - I was down to a single-digit number of inodes on / ... The box became unusable and had to be reset. Upon booting the OS "cleaned up temporary f

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread John Bleichert
On 10/22/2014 03:53 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: There is some buggy software (cups?) creating a lot of symlinks in /tmp or so. Kind regards, Andrei Interesting that you mention that - cups did kick the bucket this morning and become unusable. I will watch out for it in the future - thanks!

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, John Bleichert wrote: > >Try a df -i You may have run out of inodes > > Iain: Bingo - I was down to a single-digit number of inodes on / ... > > The box became unusable and had to be reset. Upon booting the OS > "cleaned up temporary files" and now I'm back to an IUse% of 4%

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 15:45:58, John Bleichert wrote: > > This is the second time this has happened, so something is eating up inodes > on /. I am going to run some aptitude tests and see what happens. > > Any idea what the OS is doing during boot to clean up temporary space? Is it > something I can

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread John Bleichert
On 10/22/2014 03:00 PM, Iain M Conochie wrote: Try a df -i You may have run out of inodes Cheers Iain Iain: Bingo - I was down to a single-digit number of inodes on / ... The box became unusable and had to be reset. Upon booting the OS "cleaned up temporary files" and now I'm back to

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Doug wrote: > On 10/22/2014 03:01 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> John Bleichert wrote: >> >>> As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when >>> running aptitude upgrade: >> >>> >>> dpkg: error processing archive >>> /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Doug
On 10/22/2014 03:01 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: John Bleichert wrote: As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when running aptitude upgrade: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all.deb (--unpack): unable to create `

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 22/10/14 19:49, John Bleichert wrote: Hello All, As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when running aptitude upgrade: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all.deb (--unpack): unable to create `/usr/share/cu

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Sven Hartge
John Bleichert wrote: > As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when > running aptitude upgrade: > > dpkg: error processing archive > /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all.deb (--unpack): > unable to create > `/usr/share/cups/templates/ru/set

dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread John Bleichert
Hello All, As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when running aptitude upgrade: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all.deb (--unpack): unable to create `/usr/share/cups/templates/ru/set-printer-options-header.