Subject: debian-installer: tmpfs disk gets full when trying bootstrapping again
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:05:27 +0100
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
If I try to install the base system, and it fails for some reason
(like exim not configuring), and then I in the mindframe of either
1) an optimistic user, thinking "well maybe if I try again"
or
2) an curious user that don't know where the logs are, hence
decides to try again and pay attention to tty3 this time
goes back to installing it *again*, after first deleting and
recreating the partition (since not doing so results in errors
from awk installation), then the following error message
results on tty3:
tar: Write Error: No space left on device
and "df" indeed shows the tmpfs to be full.
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Subject: Re: Bug#239758: Acknowledgement (debian-installer: tmpfs disk gets
full when trying bootstrapping again)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:32:10 +0100
If it makes a difference, this was after a couple of failures to go back
to reformat the partitions (which were because I had cd-ed into /target
on tty2, before I figured it out and cd-ed out so I could reformat the
partitions)
Ove Kaaven wrote:
> If I try to install the base system, and it fails for some reason
> (like exim not configuring), and then I in the mindframe of either
>
> 1) an optimistic user, thinking "well maybe if I try again"
> or
> 2) an curious user that don't know where the logs are, hence
> decides to try again and pay attention to tty3 this time
>
> goes back to installing it *again*, after first deleting and
> recreating the partition (since not doing so results in errors
> from awk installation), then the following error message
> results on tty3:
>
> tar: Write Error: No space left on device
>
> and "df" indeed shows the tmpfs to be full.
How much ram do you have? 64 mb?
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Ove Kaaven wrote:
> ons, 24.03.2004 kl. 08.07 skrev Joey Hess:
> > How much ram do you have? 64 mb?
>
> The machine has 512 MB.
Wow! 400+ mb of log files. Do you have a sample?
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Subject: Re: Bug#239758: debian-installer: tmpfs disk gets full when trying
bootstrapping again
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:06:12 +0100
ons, 24.03.2004 kl. 09.32 skrev Joey Hess:
> Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > ons, 24.03.2004 kl. 08.07 skrev Joey Hess:
> > > How much ram do you have? 64 mb?
> >
> > The machine has 512 MB.
>
> Wow! 400+ mb of log files. Do you have a sample?
Sorry, didn't know where whatever was using that space could be (there
was no "du" command available), and I don't have it running anymore.
Perhaps you could say where the usage is likely to be since there's a
chance I will run it again (I am banging against the 137GB barrier I
think). But I was under the the impression that the installer was trying
to unpack debs without remembering to mount /target first, actually,
after I went back and forth between partitioning and installing base
system a few times (with a few errors thrown in between the two).
Ove Kaaven wrote:
> Sorry, didn't know where whatever was using that space could be (there
> was no "du" command available), and I don't have it running anymore.
> Perhaps you could say where the usage is likely to be since there's a
> chance I will run it again (I am banging against the 137GB barrier I
> think). But I was under the the impression that the installer was trying
> to unpack debs without remembering to mount /target first, actually,
> after I went back and forth between partitioning and installing base
> system a few times (with a few errors thrown in between the two).
Well, yes, it's possible something messed up with /target, though it
shouldn't. That should not have used more than 200 mb of memory though.
The logs are /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman.
Given how much memory seems to have been used, I think one much have
been growing constantly, possibly from the kernel logs..
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see shy jo
Subject: Re: Bug#239758: debian-installer: tmpfs disk gets full when trying bootstrapping again
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:05:25 +0100
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:34:43AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Well, yes, it's possible something messed up with /target, though it
> shouldn't. That should not have used more than 200 mb of memory though.
tmpfs is mounted with an arbitrary size=100M, because it's otherwise too
small on systems with limited memory.
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Jeremie Koenig <[email protected]>
Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:34:43AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Well, yes, it's possible something messed up with /target, though it
> > shouldn't. That should not have used more than 200 mb of memory though.
>
> tmpfs is mounted with an arbitrary size=100M, because it's otherwise too
> small on systems with limited memory.
Thanks, I'd forgotten about that. Ok, then, not having /target mounted
could explain a full tmpfs here.
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