[SOLVED] usm "No space left on device" with 120MB free?

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[SOLVED] usm "No space left on device" with 120MB free?

Post#1 by datruche » 21 Dec 2015, 22:10

Hi!

changes.dat has become too small to update all the slack's pkg dbs. So till I can enlarge the former while preserving the customization , I've moved /tmp/usm to the hard drive and symlinked it to /tmp/usm. That HDD partition sda7 has lots of free room.

$ df -hT (just after the update could not finish)

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Sys. de fichiers Type     Taille Utilisé Dispo Uti% Monté sur
aufs             aufs       509M    389M  120M  77% /
devtmpfs         devtmpfs   500M       0  500M   0% /dev
/dev/sda7        ext4        62G     22G   37G  38% /mnt/sda7
/dev/sdb1        vfat       7,3G    4,1G  3,2G  57% /mnt/sdb1
/mnt/live/run    none       500M     11M  490M   3% /run
# usm -u all

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 <SNIP SNIP>
Starting slackonly database update 
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
File verification was good.

bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
bunzip2: No space left on device
	Input file = /var/usm/slackonly/MANIFEST.bz2, output file = /var/usm/slackonly/MANIFEST
bunzip2: Deleting output file /var/usm/slackonly/MANIFEST, if it exists.
          

==============================================================================
WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!
==============================================================================
One or more errors occurred while usm was running:                       
 
FATAL ERROR!
usm update_database 289
Could not decompress: MANIFEST.bz2
 
============================================================================== 
That is anytime I've tried. How to update usm here?
As this box has got 1 gig I'm thinking it may be a tmpfs issue, if usm uses RAM for decompression.
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Re: usm "No space left on device" when there's quite some?

Post#2 by brokenman » 21 Dec 2015, 22:13

/tmp/usm to the hard drive and symlinked it to /tmp/usm
So that takes care of the packages that you download. The database files are stored in /var/usm. Please take a look at the config file in /etc/usm.conf and change the path there.
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Re: usm "No space left on device" when there's quite some?

Post#3 by datruche » 21 Dec 2015, 22:19

Thanks brokenmann
I considered that, and thought slackonly's db wouldn't needs over the 120 MB that are available on the device. Does it?
# du --max-depth=1 -m /var/usm/

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1	/var/usm/local
1	/var/usm/alien
1	/var/usm/salix
1	/var/usm/slacky
1	/var/usm/ponce
2	/var/usm/slackware
1	/var/usm/slackwarepatches
18	/var/usm/slackonly
22	/var/usm/
EDIT: Yes it does (answering myself)

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 Starting slackonly database update 
Downloading: vercheck.txt  DONE
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
File verification was good.
Optimizing manifest
 slackonly  database updated. 

 Starting sbo database update 
SLACKBUILDS.TXT.gz
Downloading: SLACKBUILDS.TXT.gz  DONE
 sbo  database updated. 
Wooow that makes a 512 MB changes.dat really too small for any serious customization -> lesson learnt.

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Re: [SOLVED] usm "No space left on device" with 120MB free?

Post#4 by Ed_P » 21 Dec 2015, 22:48

USM for me is only 16MB and I just updated it.

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guest@porteus:~$ ./savedatspaceused.sh
Enter root's password 
Password: 

du -sh
219M	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes
df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
-               316M  236M   80M  75% /mnt/live/memory/images/changes

344K	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/etc
181M	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/home
32K	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/root
3.6M	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/usr
34M	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var

48M	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/home/guest/.wine

Press Enter for more details, Ctrl+C to end.

96K	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/etc/usm
ls /mnt/live/memory/images/changes/etc/usm
extra-deps.txt	   mirrors-salix.txt		 mirrors-slacky.txt
files.conf	   mirrors-sbo.txt		 suppliment-libs.txt
ignore-deps.txt    mirrors-slackonly.txt	 suppliment-optifest.txt
mirrors-alien.txt  mirrors-slackware.txt	 usm.conf
mirrors-ponce.txt  mirrors-slackwarepatches.txt  version.txt

2.1M	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var/log

16M	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var/usm

464K	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var/usm/alien
200K	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var/usm/local
640K	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var/usm/ponce
704K	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var/usm/salix
2.8M	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var/usm/sbo
9.1M	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var/usm/slackonly
1.4M	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var/usm/slackware
184K	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var/usm/slackwarepatches
580K	/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/var/usm/slacky
As for modules I download with USM I store them outside of Porteus on a NTFS partition which I reference with a extramod= cheatcode. No symlink needed.

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changes=EXIT:/porteus3.1/changes/porteussave.dat extramod=/porteus3.1/Modules
And as for the size of my Modules folder, well that's another story.

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guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/sda5/porteus3.1/Modules
total 697672
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4096 Jan 24  2015 001-core_alldesktops-150124.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12288 Jan 26  2015 002-xorg_alldesktops-150126.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4096 Jan 20  2015 004-lxqt_fixes-150120.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  71360512 Dec 12  2014 07-printing.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   3346432 Dec  6 01:18 KeePass-2.30-x86_64-2_slack.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 184147968 Sep 25  2014 MyWines.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 299610112 Sep 19  2014 Wine-1.7.26-x64-GeckoMono-1.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   3252224 Dec 10 20:12 database-usm-20151210.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   5496832 Dec 10 20:12 flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.554-x86_64-1alien.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12288 Jun  3  2015 java-builder-1.1_noarch.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  55930880 Dec 10 23:04 jre-8u66-x86_64-1.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root    778240 Dec  6 01:17 keepassx-0.4.3-x86_64-2_slack.xzm*
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root         0 Dec 20  2014 kpat/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  44175360 Nov 14 01:49 mozilla-firefox-38.4.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root  40120320 Jul 13 23:04 upkernel-3.18.18-noarch-1.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root    110592 Dec 21  2014 xgames-0.3-x86_64-4.xzm*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   6053888 Jan 21  2015 xscreensaver-5.29-x86_64-1_slack14.1.xzm*
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Re: [SOLVED] usm "No space left on device" with 120MB free?

Post#5 by datruche » 21 Dec 2015, 23:11

@Ed_P

1. yeah thus my syrprise with 120 MB free left in / (aufs)

2.

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changes=EXIT:/porteus3.1/changes/porteussave.dat extramod=/porteus3.1/Modules
Aha, much more portable too :) Now what about the /tmp/{usm,usmbo,*), that can't be extramod'ed, can it?

3. yeap, not surprising if Porteus's your main or dayly distro of choice.

Thanks for the sharing!

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Re: [SOLVED] usm "No space left on device" with 120MB free?

Post#6 by Ed_P » 22 Dec 2015, 00:08

datruche wrote:2.

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changes=EXIT:/porteus3.1/changes/porteussave.dat extramod=/porteus3.1/Modules
Aha, much more portable too :) Now what about the /tmp/{usm,usmbo,*), that can't be extramod'ed, can it?
With the changes=EXIT cheatcode the /tmp folder is not saved. Along with several others. The main thing I like with the EXIT option is if I screw up some things testing I can bypass updating the save.dat file when rebooting.
3. yeap, not surprising if Porteus's your main or dayly distro of choice.
Actually I would say my main distro is Windows but my Porteus distro is a very functioning system for the apps that I like. One still missing and maybe I don't really need it.

When my main system was down for a week or so I used Porteus exclusively and didn't miss a beat imo.

I have x86 versions of Porteus on multiple netbooks/laptops, an a USB flash drive, I also have an x86-64 system on my netbook and a BIOS/UEFI booting USB flash drive. The Modules folder on the systems other than my netbook are considerably smaller. They primarily have firefox, flashplayer & java modules plus a game or two. No Wine modules.
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[SOLVED] usm "No space left on device" with 120MB free?

Post#7 by postcd » 21 Sep 2017, 20:50

Ed_P wrote:
22 Dec 2015, 00:08
With the changes=EXIT cheatcode the /tmp folder is not saved. Along with several others. The main thing I like with the EXIT option is if I screw up some things testing I can bypass updating the save.dat file when rebooting.
I got same issue as OP, and when used EXIT boot option as advised by Ed_P, the USM updated all databases without issue. the "/" mount point had plenty of disk space then.

I did it like this:
turned:
"changes=/porteus/porteussaveenc.dat"
to
"changes=EXIT:/porteus/porteussaveenc.dat"
in porteus.cfg (/mnt/sda1/boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg ?)
rebooted
run usm / updates / update all

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