Package: apt Version: 0.3.18 In my machine /tmp is symlink to /var/tmp.
Today I run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. It upgraded also many tetex-packages and installation scripts of tetex created new fonts etc. Then my Gnome and Enlightenment hanged. I was able to move mouse, but clicking it did not help. I killed my X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. I tried to log in again, but my X exited and I was back at the gdm again. I was able to log in from text-console, though. I stopped my gdm and tried to start my X with zsh-alias called myx: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/juhtolv % whence myx startx -- -dpi 100 -bpp 16 & disown && exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/juhtolv % It worked, but I saw no Gnome-things in my desktop. my TkDesk showed its splash screen, but then it crashed. I logged out and started X with plain startx without putting it to background. Then I saw, that TkDesk gave error messages saying that it can't write to /tmp. Then I run df. My /var was full! Then I used this algorithm to find disk hogs. 1. cd /var 2. du -k * | sort -n 3. cd to directory that was biggest in output of aforementioned command 4. If you are not deep enough in directory tree, go to 2. I was in /var/cache/apt/archives. If I saw two versions of same package, I removed the older one. After that everything was fine again. So, what should we do? I have these suggestions: 1. When package is upgraded, older debian-package must deleted from /var/cache/apt/archives. 2. When package is deinstalled with dpkg, its package-file must be deleted from /var/cache/apt/archives. 3. When tetex is installed or upgraded, it should remove all tetex-packages from /var/cache/apt/archives. Those features could be switched on and of with debconf and configuration file. I also have these ideas: 1. It must be possible to configure, how much free space the partition containing /var/cache/apt/archives must have before apt-get starts to download anything. 2. It must be possible to configure, if apt asks before deleting anything from /var/cache/apt/archives. -- -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * * * U of Jyväskylä * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/ * * * * " STRAIGHT BUT NOT NARROW !! " -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't want to run a company. I'm not good at managing people. You have a problem with the guy in the next cubicle? I don't care. Shoot him or something." Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, in Rolling Stone, May '97
