Bug#246749: tetex-bin: upgrade to 2.0.2-14 fails (bogus 'No space left on device')

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 30.04.04 Ivan Nestlerode (nestler@speakeasy.net) wrote:

Hi all,

> When I attempted to upgrade tetex-bin today, I got a slew of errors
> about "No space left on device" despite having what should be plenty of
> space:
> 
> $ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hde1             133M   81M   46M  64% /
> tmpfs                 253M     0  253M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hde5             4.6G  1.5G  2.9G  34% /usr
> /dev/hde6             2.8G  127M  2.5G   5% /var
> /dev/hde7              15M  1.1M   13M   8% /tmp
> /dev/hde8             103G   16G   82G  16% /home
> 
> Also, I am using dash as /bin/sh if that makes a difference.
> 
> Here is the error:
> 
> Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-14) ...
> Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done
> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ... done
> Running initex. This may take some time. ...
> ! Could not write 1 8-byte item(s).
> ! Could not write 2926 4-byte item(s).
> fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/lambda.oft installed.
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/tmp/mt3966.tmp': No space left on device
> 
Yes, we do create about 13MB in /tmp, which is IMHO not that much. So
it is possible, that your 13MB can get filled during fmtutil --all.
If you don't have the space to create alle formats at one time you
should comment out some in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf, run
update-fmtutil and then try to recover. If that succeeded, you may
comment the missing in, run update-fmtutil and then fmtutil --missing.
To Adrian: Is it a policy violation if we create to much stuff in
/tmp, i.e. is there an upper limit, we should obey?

H. 
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