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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 05:00:14
Message-Id: 20130223050004.GC5625@syscon7.inet
1 I'm trying to update one of my system and running:
2 emerge -uDNavq world
3
4 I get a very strange message: No space left on device'
5
6
7 Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y
8 Traceback (most recent call last):
9 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 48, in <module>
10 retval = emerge_main()
11 File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1021, in emerge_main
12 gc_locals=locals().clear)
13 File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 3837, in run_action
14 myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
15 File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 463, in action_build
16 retval = mergetask.merge()
17 File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 935, in merge
18 rval = self._handle_self_update()
19 File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 309, in _handle_self_update
20 _prepare_self_update(self.settings)
21 File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line 2164, in _prepare_self_update
22 shutil.copytree(orig_pym_path, portage._pym_path, symlinks=True)
23 File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 224, in __call__
24 rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs)
25 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/shutil.py", line 206, in copytree
26 raise Error, errors
27 Error: [('/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.pyo', '/var/tmp/portage/._portage_reinstall_.QFROig/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.pyo', '[Errno 28] No space left on
28 device'), ('/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/porttree.pyo', '/var/tmp/portage/._portage_reinstall_.QFROig/pym/portage/dbapi/porttree.pyo', '[Errno 28] No space
29 left on device'), ('/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/cpv_expand.pyo',
30 ...
31
32 I have plenty of room left on the HD
33 df -h
34 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
35 rootfs 50G 13G 35G 27% /
36 /dev/root 50G 13G 35G 27% /
37 tmpfs 3.7G 668K 3.7G 1% /run
38 udev 10M 4.6M 5.5M 46% /dev
39 shm 3.7G 0 3.7G 0% /dev/shm
40 cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
41 /dev/sda4 530G 119G 385G 24% /home
42 tmpfs 10M 4.6M 5.5M 46% /var/tmp/portage
43
44 df -i
45 Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
46 rootfs 3278576 829078 2449498 26% /
47 /dev/root 3278576 829078 2449498 26% /
48 tmpfs 957692 535 957157 1% /run
49 udev 949264 990 948274 1% /dev
50 shm 957692 1 957691 1% /dev/shm
51 cgroup_root 957692 6 957686 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
52 /dev/sda4 35266560 33051 35233509 1% /home
53 tmpfs 949264 990 948274 1% /var/tmp/portage
54
55 So, why I'm getting this message?
56
57 --
58 Joseph

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