Bug#127942: apt: Apt install packages partly in out-of-disk space situation, rendering system unusefull
severity 127942 normal
thanks
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 10:36:10PM +0100, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.4
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
>
> Today i did a "apt-get dist-upgrade" unaware that my partition was reaching 100% diskuse.
> Apt did not mind in tried to install many packages among which updated KDE packages.
> My system still boots, but most icons are missing. (And this is just the visual part).
> I have not tested other packages that were upgraded (because i do not know how to check
> which packages were upgraded.) But it seems likelt that more files were lost while trying to write them
> to a disk with no space left. Apt should have aborted when noticing that there was no space
> left.
APT doesn't write much of anything new to disk after it downloads the
packages. If you didn't get an error from dpkg during the installation,
then your disk probably didn't actually fill up, and your problems are
caused by something else.
If you got an error from one of those, then the entire installation process
would have been aborted, giving you sufficient notice to correct the
situation.
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- mdz
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