On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 10:08, Goran Kavrecic wrote:
> Na 1071396358, 2003-12-14 ob 11:05, je Tom Wesley napisal(a):
> > On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 09:56, Goran Kavrecic wrote:
> > > Na 1071395634, 2003-12-14 ob 10:53, je Tom Wesley napisal(a):
> > > > On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 09:44, Goran Kavrecic wrote:
> > > > > see below.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Na 1071393616, 2003-12-14 ob 10:20, je Olli napisal(a):
> > > > > > >I tried to 'emerge gimp'.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >Everything started fine. but then suddenly I've got that message:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >(No space left on device).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > ...
> > <snip>
> > > > 
> > > > Try doing the emerge in an xterm, then in another xterm issue
> > > > 
> > > > $  watch df -h
> > > > 
> > > > and see if the disk space actually gets filled by something.  I'm
> > > > guessing but it could be some temporary file somewhere that somehow gets
> > > > huge.  Perhaps if you see the disk space shrink, quickly pause the
> > > > emerge with Ctrl+Z then see if you can find the suspect file in either
> > > > /tmp or /var/tmp - it's contents might help out a bit.
> > > > 
> > > > Hope that helps...
> > > 
> > > Thanks for help, but the df doesn't make a glitch during the test. The
> > > issue is very weird(at least for me, maybe I don't know something). See
> > > following output of emerge (let me know if I have to translate it):
> > > ---
> > > Razrešuje se cpan.develooper.com...končano.
> > > Povezujem se na cpan.develooper.com[63.251.223.172]:80... priključen.
> > > HTTP zahteva poslana, čakam odgovor... 206 Partial Content
> > > Dolžina: 126,584 (še 97,912) [application/x-tar]
> > >  
> > > 22% [====================>  ...  ] 28,672        --.--K/s    ETA --:--
> > > ----
> > > Ass you see it has to dowenload nearly 128K of data. This is not a
> > > temporary file during compiling or converting or what-so-ever.
> > > 
> > > Goran
> > > 
> > 
> > As a test, try the wget from the console, see what that gives.  If
> > nothing else then it should give you the file, which you can copy to
> > your /usr/portage/distfiles and get the emerge underway...
> 
> Ok, this works. I can get trough somehow.
> But this is not the point. Something went wrong in portage as I see the
> situation. Do you agree?
> 
> Goran

Certainly do.  You should probably open a bug report, add a link to this
thread and see what comes of it.  At least that way you will probably
get the attention of a developer who almost certainly has more knowledge
than us....

-- 
Tom Wesley

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