Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.11.0.1 Severity: normal hi
did you ever ran out of disk space while installing/upgrading packages?
When the dreaded message "dpkg: ..... No space left on device" appears,
you readily know it is time for a coffe and 25 minutes of messy
hacking in your Debian box.
apt-get (and aptitude for that matter) are no help: they will
stubbornly insist on reinstalling the last package that failed ("hey
APT, guess what... since it failed, it will not succeed next time
around" ; unfortunately Super Cows do not have good ears :-) )
While you are cursing APT and the relatives, dpkg is not helping
either: whenever it fails, it will leave two nice huge files around,
/var/lib/dpkg/status-new and /var/lib/dpkg/available-new . Those two
files are carefully designed to fill out your / device up to the last
byte, so that any following command you issue will fail choking.
So here is my letter to Santa Bug: dear Santa, I promise I will be a
better hacker next year (yes, I know I should not replace obnoxious
sounds into my wife favourite videogames); but, pleeease, when 'dpkg'
fails while writing /var/lib/dpkg/status-new and
/var/lib/dpkg/available-new , could it also delete them?
a.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils [textutils] 5.2.1-2.1 The GNU core utilities
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
dpkg recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Andrea Mennucc
"E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Tonino Carotone)
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