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From: Chandler Paul <thatslyude@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:39:50
Message-Id: 20120708203804.48be904a@Werewolf
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory by Pandu Poluan
1 On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 07:29:15 +0700
2 Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
3
4 > On Jul 9, 2012 1:39 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, <v_2e@×××.net> wrote:
7 > > > Hello!
8 > > > I noticed some strange messages in my ~/.xsession-errors
9 > > > log-file today. They look like this:
10 > > >
11 > > > profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base:Cannot create directory
12 > > >
13 > profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.6.1-r1/work/xfce4-session-4.6.1/xfce4-session/xfce4_session-ice-layer.gcda:Skip
14 > > > profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base:Cannot create directory
15 > > >
16 > profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.6.1-r1/work/xfce4-session-4.6.1/xfce4-session/xfce4_session-main.gcda:Skip
17 > > > . . .
18 > > > and so on.
19 > > >
20 > > > I haven't seen such messages before, that is why decided to ask
21 > > > here about what they mean. It is also strange that they mention
22 > > > the '/var/tmp/portage/' directory. Maybe something is wrong with
23 > > > installation system?
24 > > >
25 > > > Thanks.
26 > > > Vladimir
27 > > >
28 > > >
29 > > > -----
30 > > > <v_2e@×××.net>
31 > > >
32 > >
33 > > Out of space?
34 > >
35 > > eclean-dist -pd possibly?
36 > >
37 >
38 > Or out of inodes. I've painstakingly learnt to host the portage build
39 > directory on reiserfs instead of ext3/4.
40 >
41 > Rgds,
42
43 No, I don't think so. I've built things as large as Libreoffice on ext4
44 before. I can't imagine many situations where you could ever possibly
45 run out of inodes.