Public bug reported:
I tried to do a test install of Ubuntu 9.04 Beta in a VirtualBox 2.2 VM
but it quickly became unusable. I now realize that I didn't allocate
enough disk space (just 2.6 GB) for the disk image, but I never received
any warnings about "out of space".
The initial install went fine and the new OS rebooted after copy and
worked fine. But then the Update Manager failed without explanation. I
switched to using the 'Mark Upgrades' function in Synaptic and I was
able to install many of the available updates. But I continued to have
failures as I would repeatedly Quit, reboot, retry Synaptic. Finally
there started to be a pattern -- the updates would fail with the
message, "failed in buffer_write(fd)". I couldn't find any reference to
it on the VirtualBox forums so I tried Google'ing it, at which point I
learned it was related to disk space. Sure enough, my VM had zero bytes
free.
Shouldn't the OS warn of low disk space, much less Synaptic and/or
Update Manager?
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
- I tried to do a test install of Ubuntu 9.04 Beta in a VirtualBox 2.2 VM.
- I know realize that I didn't allocate enough disk space (just 2.6 GB)
- for the disk image, but I never received any warnings about disk space.
+ I tried to do a test install of Ubuntu 9.04 Beta in a VirtualBox 2.2 VM
+ but it quickly became unusable. I now realize that I didn't allocate
+ enough disk space (just 2.6 GB) for the disk image, but I never received
+ any warnings about "out of space".
The original install went fine and the new OS rebooted after copy and
worked fine. But then the Update Manager failed without explanation. I
switched to using the 'Mark Upgrades' function in Synaptic and I was
- able to still many of the available updates. But I continued to have
- failures (as I would repeatedly Quit, reboot, retry Synaptic). Finally
+ able to install many of the available updates. But I continued to have
+ failures as I would repeatedly Quit, reboot, retry Synaptic. Finally
there started to be a pattern -- the updates would fail with the
message, "failed in buffer_write(fd)". I couldn't find any reference to
it on the VirtualBox forums so I tried Google'ing it, at which point I
learned it was related to disk space. Sure enough, my VM had zero bytes
free.
Shouldn't the OS warn of low disk space, much less Synaptic and/or
Update Manager?
** Description changed:
I tried to do a test install of Ubuntu 9.04 Beta in a VirtualBox 2.2 VM
but it quickly became unusable. I now realize that I didn't allocate
enough disk space (just 2.6 GB) for the disk image, but I never received
any warnings about "out of space".
- The original install went fine and the new OS rebooted after copy and
+ The initial install went fine and the new OS rebooted after copy and
worked fine. But then the Update Manager failed without explanation. I
switched to using the 'Mark Upgrades' function in Synaptic and I was
able to install many of the available updates. But I continued to have
failures as I would repeatedly Quit, reboot, retry Synaptic. Finally
there started to be a pattern -- the updates would fail with the
message, "failed in buffer_write(fd)". I couldn't find any reference to
it on the VirtualBox forums so I tried Google'ing it, at which point I
learned it was related to disk space. Sure enough, my VM had zero bytes
free.
Shouldn't the OS warn of low disk space, much less Synaptic and/or
Update Manager?
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Update Manager fails without explanation when out of disk space
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/358829
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