Bug#698581: Similar problem reproduced on different computer
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Yesterday I tried building the 3.8-series kernel from experimental here:
701694@bugs.debian.org
and it failed. I could not tell initially why this was the case, then upon restart,
Gnome, i.e. gdm was not able to start up anymore, but told me instead that something was
wrong with my system and that I should contact my system administrator.
Some time later I saw, that the root-file system had been running full. Before
trying building the root-fs was used to about 46%, so about 7,5 GB were free. But this
was not enough to build a kernel-package. So I added a 16 GB low-speed memory stick, put
a compressed btrfs-filesystem on it and retried kernel-building there. It worked actually
and the custom kernel is running much more nicely than a generic one.
When I look at the USB-Stick now, I see that 6.7 GB are used and 6.5 Gb are still free.
Now I am guessing, that the difference of about one GB was taken up by temporary files, I
simply have no other explanation.
When I realised, that this actually was a disk-full-issue, I downgraded the bug to
'wishlist' and thought I was going to close it, when it was verified, but now I thin the
real problem is that during the build-process the user is not informed, that there is
actually no disk space left, but one gets quite misleading error messages.
So I leave this as a wishlist item. If the maintainers think, my wish to get clear
error-messages can not be granted easily, than it safe of course to close this
report.
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