Bug#127942: apt: Apt install packages partly in out-of-disk space situation, rendering system unusefull
On Monday 7 January 2002 05:24, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.
I just learned on debian-devel and debian-kde, that:
1) df 100% is still %5 free, accessible for root
2) dpkg properly handles disk fullness
3) my icon problem was unrelated
i do not know how to close this bug as "poster", and want to apologize for
misfiling this bug report...
regards,
Egon
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