/var is too small according to pkg. Virtual machines are a great thing. Ideal for experimenting and learning. I have erased the whole thing and tried a new setup, this time with a 2G /var. At the very first time I had gone with the defaults of the installer, but that created only a 256M /var. I had subsequently set up the system for a second time with a 1G /var, but apparently that still wasn't enough. Now with a 2G /var it pkg has all the working space it needs to download packages and set up xorg and KDE.
Quite odd, the 109M gap between the results of du -sh . (in /var) and du -h, disappeared after a reboot. I can't recall ever having had something like this in Linux, so in DragonFlyBSD I hadn't expected this behaviour at all. Like a dejavu of Windows -- to make it work, reboot. I think we can close this thread now. Best regards and thanks to all who pitched in. On 30 December 2014 at 18:25, Matthew Dillon <[email protected]> wrote: > I think pkg might need temporary space either in /tmp or in /var > somewhere. Perhaps the problem is that /tmp is only 228M. Normally we > make /tmp a tmpfs filesystem (that is, swap-backed and doesn't survive a > reboot). It's also possible that the root filesystem is too small. I'm > just not sure where pkg wants to put its temporary files. > > -Matt > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Aero 9000 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> df -h says, >> >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity >> Mounted on >> /dev/serno/VB0faba5d1-2d0fde2d.s1a 744M 180M 504M 26% / >> devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev >> /dev/serno/VB0faba5d1-2d0fde2d.s1d 8.2G 11K 7.6G 0% /home >> /dev/serno/VB0faba5d1-2d0fde2d.s1e 248M 8.0K 228M 0% /tmp >> /dev/serno/VB0faba5d1-2d0fde2d.s1f 7.4G 1.2G 5.6G 18% /usr >> /dev/serno/VB0faba5d1-2d0fde2d.s1g 1.0G 157M 770M 17% /var >> procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc >> >> The odd thing is, that if I do du -sh . in /var, it says, 48M, meaning >> there is 109M gap between what df says and what du says. >> >> Kind regards. >> >> On 27 December 2014 at 20:48, Matthew Dillon <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> How much space does the filesystem have? What's your 'df -h' output ? >>> >>> -Matt >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Aero 9000 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> OK, this seems to become an uphill battle. First of all, thank you >>>> sephe, because your solution worked :-). >>>> >>>> New problem, pkg install kde says insufficient free space in >>>> /var/cache/pkg. So, du -sh -> var is 1G, 157M used. man pkg, pkg clean -> >>>> nothing to do. OK. cd /var/, du * -sh -> yep, 147 MB in /var/cache. So, cd >>>> cache, cd pkg, ll -> there's a whole bunch of files pertaining the >>>> installing of xorg in there. Well I don't need them, get rid of them (rm). >>>> pkg install kde -> no, insufficient space. cd /var, du * -sh -> only 40K in >>>> cache. df -h -> var is 1G, 157M used. >>>> >>>> Now I am at a loss. The disc is setup with the UDF file system, not >>>> HAMMER or ZFS or something fancy. >>>> >>>> Kind regards. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 27 December 2014 at 09:16, Sepherosa Ziehau <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Aero 9000 <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > Hi Folks, >>>>> > >>>>> > I'm not sure if this is the correct mailing list for me to post this >>>>> to, but >>>>> > if not just tell me and I'll be out of your hair. Anyways, I've >>>>> known of >>>>> > DragonFly BSD for a couple of years now, just never got round to >>>>> install it >>>>> > until a few days ago. So I downloaded the greatest and latest >>>>> version and >>>>> > set up a virtual machine just to give this one a try. Installation >>>>> went >>>>> > smooth. However, since I'm more of a GUI type person I also wanted >>>>> to set up >>>>> > xorg and then gnome (of XFCE or maybe even KDE). But I never got >>>>> round to >>>>> > deciding which desktop I want, because of an error during setting up >>>>> xorg. >>>>> > >>>>> > I typed, pkg install xorg >>>>> > >>>>> > That first caused pkg to update itself and then pkg started pulling >>>>> in >>>>> > packages and installing them until an assertion failed. The message >>>>> reads, >>>>> > >>>>> > Fetching xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0.6.txz: 100% 9 KB 9.2k/s 00:01 >>>>> > >>>>> > Checking integrity...assertion failed (pkgdb_ensure_loaded(j->db, p2, >>>>> > PKG_LOAD_FILES|PKG_LOAD_DIRS) == EPKG_OK), function >>>>> > pkg_conflicts_need_conflict, file pkg_jobs_conflicts.c, line 211. >>>>> > >>>>> > Child process pid=990 terminated abnormally: Abort trap >>>>> > # Dec 23 17:13:55 kernel: pid 990 (pkg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 >>>>> (core >>>>> > dumped) >>>>> >>>>> Temp solution/fixup suggested by bapt: >>>>> pkg fetch -u >>>>> pkg upgrade >>>>> >>>>> Best Regards, >>>>> sephe >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
