Alexander Prinsier wrote: > Luk Claes schreef: >> Alexander Prinsier wrote: >>> Package: dpkg >>> Version: 1.14.22 >>> Severity: serious >>> >>> I was installing php5 while my system ran out of disk space. dpkg >>> breaks, and leaves the system in a state where I can no longer use dpkg. >>> To find out the version number of dpkg I used /var/log/dpkg.log, as I >>> couldn't use dpkg to find it's own version number... Hope it's the >>> correct one. >> >> Did you try to 'rm -rf /tmp/*' or 'rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*' or >> similar to see if you really cannot use dpkg anymore? > > Actually it's a virtual environment (from the openvz.org project). > That's why I got a disk quota exceeded instead of disk full. (But that > shouldn't matter much). After I got the error I told openvz to increase > the disk quota, and I tried dpkg --configure -a again. I got the same > error. In a non-virtual environment it's a little less trivial to > increase the size of your disk :) > > So yes, I couldn't use dpkg anymore. >> >> This doesn't feel like an RC bug to me, though it would be nice if dpkg >> would warn before trying to fill the disk space. > > I had to remove /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0119 (which seemed to contain > bogus data), and then dpkg could continue. I hope I didn't damage the > consistency of my system by doing that. > > Well suppose someone low on disk space upgrades to lenny and the > installation just breaks in the middle of the upgrade... Wouldn't be > much fun. > > Considering the criteria for grave: "makes the package in question > unusable or mostly so", I think it matches that.
Well, the package does not behave that way by default, only when you run out of disk space... anyway it would be good to get some maintainer reaction. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
