On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:56:04PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote: > "ext Marius Gedminas" <marius at pov.lt> writes: > > >> Can you say when it ran out of space? During unpacking or during > >> configuring (i.e., during running postinst, etc)? > > > > During unpacking, IIRC. > > Ok. If it is a single package, then I wouldn't expect it to be > "broken" afterwards, it should just not be listed as installed. With > multiple packages, however, things are more interesting... I rebooted and tried again. First time I got a "Download failed" dialog. Log: ----- Installing gnumeric 1.7.0-1indt3 Failed to fetch http://www.maemo.org.br/platform/apt/pool/user/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-common_1.7.0-1indt3_all.deb: Error reading from server. Remote end closed connection Failed to fetch http://www.maemo.org.br/platform/apt/pool/user/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.7.0-1indt3_armel.deb: Could not connect to www.maemo.org.br:80 (72.3.139.221). - connect (111 Connection refused) ----- I tried again. This time I got no download errors, but the package failed to install: ----- Installing gnumeric 1.7.0-1indt3 /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: not found Selecting previously deselected package libgnomecanvas2-common. (Reading database ... 12891 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libgnomecanvas2-common (from .../libgnomecanvas2-common_2.10.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgnomecanvas2-0. Unpacking libgnomecanvas2-0 (from .../libgnomecanvas2-0_2.10.0-0ubuntu1_armel.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgnomeprint2.2-data. Unpacking libgnomeprint2.2-data (from .../libgnomeprint2.2-data_2.10.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgnomeprint2.2-0. Unpacking libgnomeprint2.2-0 (from .../libgnomeprint2.2-0_2.10.3-0ubuntu1_armel.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgnomeprintui2.2-common. Unpacking libgnomeprintui2.2-common (from .../libgnomeprintui2.2-common_2.10.2-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgnomeprintui2.2-0. Unpacking libgnomeprintui2.2-0 (from .../libgnomeprintui2.2-0_2.10.2-0ubuntu1_armel.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgsf-1-common. Unpacking libgsf-1-common (from .../libgsf-1-common_1.14.1-2indt1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgsf-1-114. Unpacking libgsf-1-114 (from .../libgsf-1-114_1.14.1-2indt1_armel.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgoffice-0-common. Unpacking libgoffice-0-common (from .../libgoffice-0-common_0.3.0-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgoffice-0-3. Unpacking libgoffice-0-3 (from .../libgoffice-0-3_0.3.0-1_armel.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgsf-gnome-1-114. Unpacking libgsf-gnome-1-114 (from .../libgsf-gnome-1-114_1.14.1-2indt1_armel.deb) ... Unpacking gnumeric-common (from .../gnumeric-common_1.7.0-1indt3_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnumeric-common_1.7.0-1indt3_all.deb (--unpack): corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Selecting previously deselected package gnumeric. Unpacking gnumeric (from .../gnumeric_1.7.0-1indt3_armel.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 12: pgrep: not found Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnumeric-common_1.7.0-1indt3_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ----- Looks like apt leaves a half-downloaded file in /var/cache/apt/archives, and doesn't retry the failed download. It is very possible that I did the same thing (trying to install twice, with a failed download in the middle) before. I'm sort of doing this in the background while working. > > Heh, the "Installing" tab tells me gnumeric requires 32 megs of device > > memory. I have 24 megs free. It would be nice if the application > > manager checked the space requirement before installing. > > Yes, we could do that, but the involved numbers are really imprecise. > They can be off by a factor of two or so, I'd say, in both directions. > The package usually doesn't tell you how much space it really will > take on a compressed file system like JFFS2, and a compressed > filesystem like JFFS2 doesn't tell you how space really is free. Ah, I see. Makes sense. Marius Gedminas -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070226/21d7d298/attachment.pgp
