On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:11:37AM -0700, Joe Warner wrote: > OK, what Brooks recommended below ended up being the > culprit/solution to my woes! Luckily, 'cat' was the only > program that got whacked and I was able to continue with > 'make installworld' from where I left off. > > The question still remains: "How did this happen to begin with? > ..and is it documented anywhere?
I'm not sure if this is all that well documented, but the issue is that you ran out of space on /. This happens to people when they are either running with soft updates of their / partition is too small. The default has been raised in current, and I think in stable, but this is an ongoing issue. I wonder if we should consider adding a check to installworld/installkernel to refuse to install on very small / partitions since the failure mode is really ugly (losing files in /bin or /sbin). The only real solution to your space problems is to reparition. You might be able to find other temporary solutions, but in the end, that's it. If you do it, I recommend using at least 100MB for / and I'd probably suggest 150MB for plenty of margin (I use 256MB, but I want room for several sets of debug kernels and modules.) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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