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sr #105931: cvs up -dP -> 'No space left on device'

Submitter:  Claude SIMON <csimon>
Submitted:  Wed 04 Jul 2007 06:26:45 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Source code repositories - developer access Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  5 - Blocker Status:  Works For Me
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  sp
Operating System:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Wed 04 Jul 2007 06:13:31 PM UTC, comment #11: 

Thanks. Jim Meyering pointed that while there was available disk space in tmpfs, there wasn't any inodes left.

The service is now restarted with double inodes.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Wed 04 Jul 2007 02:49:30 PM UTC, comment #10: 

me too :-(

Camm Maguire <camm>
Wed 04 Jul 2007 01:06:35 PM UTC, comment #9: 

I also have this problem.

Guillaume Yziquel <yziquel>
Wed 04 Jul 2007 12:56:25 PM UTC, comment #8: 

I also have this problem. :-(

Joakim Olsson <jocke>
Wed 04 Jul 2007 12:22:50 PM UTC, comment #7: 

This is not a user-side problem.  It's happening for me too; it's hard to get any work done. I can detect no pattern to when it happens and when it doesn't.

It seems apparent that the 500mb claimed to be available in /tmp isn't really available.  Can we make /tmp just be on disk?  (Or point cvs to some other directory; I'm not sure if that can be done without recompiling.)  I know it's slower, but right now we're having a much worse problem.  I would bet this problem is related to tmpfs.  Anyway, 1gb is not enough.

As for usage, there are around 2400 cvs-serv directories.  None are very big in themselves, but that adds up to about the right amount.  They go back to June 20.  Can we delete some of the older ones?  At least then the immediate breakage should be relieved.

Karl


Karl Berry <karl>
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Wed 04 Jul 2007 11:54:23 AM UTC, comment #6: 

My comment below only applies to my 'll-plugins' project. My other project, 'dino', seems to work fine.

Lars Luthman <larsl>
Wed 04 Jul 2007 11:52:59 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Same for me. When doing 'cvs diff -u' I get messages like these:

cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv17859/plugins/sineshaper
No space left on device

...and CVS aborts. The actual filenames in the error messages are different every time.

Lars Luthman <larsl>
Wed 04 Jul 2007 11:03:28 AM UTC, comment #4: 

Hello,
I have the same problem "No space left on device" with MechSys. I tried at University and at Home, in both machines failed... so I guess is a problem at server side.
Thanks.

Dorival Pedroso <pedroso>
Wed 04 Jul 2007 10:34:19 AM UTC, comment #3: 

The cvs system's /tmp is hosted in memory (tmpfs), with a 1GB limit. Currently half of it is used, which I didn't expect. We need to monitor the /tmp usage and see what's wrong.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Wed 04 Jul 2007 09:57:32 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Hello Stephan,

I've tried on 2 different computers and I get the same error message. 'df -h' on the computer I currently use reports 852M for the '/' partition (I have no dedicated '/tmp' partition). I think, this should be enough :-) ! I use 'cygwin' under Windows XP.

I made some research on the Web, and it seems that 'create_adm_p' appears in a file named 'server.c'. So, it seems a server issue. I've also found references to a 'CVSROOT/Emptydir' directory regarding this error message.

I have some other CVS repositories hosted on private servers, which work fine. Some of my other project hosted by savannah give the same error message, but very rarely.

Regards,

Claude




Claude SIMON <csimon>
Wed 04 Jul 2007 08:44:32 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Hello Claude,

It seems as if that's a problem on your side. Use 'df -h' to check how much space is left on either the root partition or, if you have one, the /tmp partition of your installation.

I just double-checked the Savannah system and there's more than enough space free on the /tmp partition(s).

Regards,

Stephan

Stephan Peijnik <sp>
Wed 04 Jul 2007 06:26:45 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hello.

I'm the developer of the Epeios project (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/epeios/) and when I try to update my local repository, I've got following message :

$ cvs up -dP
[...]
cannot create_adm_p /tmp/cvs-serv19579/documentation/packages/ejava
No space left on device

The content of my CVS Root file is :

$ cat CVS/Root
:ext:(hidden)@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/cvsroot/epeios

Can you fix these, please ?
Thanks !

Claude SIMON <csimon>

 

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