Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:00:31PM +0100, peter colton wrote: part is the use of aptitude with a dist-upgrade. Isn't the lack of disk space the issue? aptitude with a dist-upgrade will bring in all recommends which will eat even more disk space! suggest 1) apt-get upgrade Watch packages

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-13 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:30:11 +0200, Hendrik Boom wrote: After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, it ended up producing an unending stream of multilog: warning: unable to write to /var/log/svscan/current. pausing: out of disk space The few times I've run out of space on

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Rogério Brito wrote: On Jun 11 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: Will try again. But ... Is it possible to resume the broken upgrade? Yes, it is. But besides the hint given by the previous poster, it would be nice if you could purge some unneeded packages, install both debophan and debfoster and

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Rogério Brito wrote: On Jun 11 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: Will try again. But ... Is it possible to resume the broken upgrade? Yes, it is. But besides the hint given by the previous poster, it would be nice if you could purge some unneeded packages, install both debophan and debfoster and

On the use of deborphan (was: Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space)

2005-06-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On 06/12/05 22:43, Tom Allison wrote: A thousand pardons. It found version 10 that was replaced by version 11. I was looking at version 11 being in use, not 10. You're right, I'm wrong. Sorry for the waste in bandwidth. No problems. BTW, here is the command that I use with deborphan: apt-get

woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, it ended up producing an unending stream of multilog: warning: unable to write to /var/log/svscan/current. pausing: out of disk space The installation log file (made using script on another partition) also contains complaints that

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread peter colton
On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, it ended up producing an unending stream of multilog: warning: unable to write to /var/log/svscan/current. pausing: out of disk space The installation log file (made using script

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, it ended up producing an unending stream of multilog: warning: unable to write to /var/log/svscan/current.

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread peter colton
On Saturday 11 June 2005 17:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, it ended up producing an unending stream of multilog:

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito
On Jun 11 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: Will try again. But ... Is it possible to resume the broken upgrade? Yes, it is. But besides the hint given by the previous poster, it would be nice if you could purge some unneeded packages, install both debophan and debfoster and remove unneeded

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: did you clear var out for apt. apt-get clean apt-get autoclean I would vote for apt-get autoclean here. 'clean' removes all package files. 'autoclean' only removes files that cannot be downloaded anymore. So autoclean would

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:00:31PM +0100, peter colton wrote: On Saturday 11 June 2005 17:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium,

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 08:37:24PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: did you clear var out for apt. apt-get clean apt-get autoclean I would vote for apt-get autoclean here. 'clean' removes all package files. 'autoclean'

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:46:50PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: But I am still curious how reilient aptitude is to disasters like disk-space shortage, and whether there is any way fo finding and repairing the packages that were damages or misconfigured as a result. dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii will

Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:39:44PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:46:50PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: But I am still curious how reilient aptitude is to disasters like disk-space shortage, and whether there is any way fo finding and repairing the packages that were