Tony I agree with you there is a fix released for this but the core issue is not solved. I have been going though and a lot of bug reports. While the current patch for karmic install does lessen the impact of the issue the core issue is still not solved. Apt fails when there is low disk space. Dereck Wonnacott in bug 126774 had a good point on this issue though. It is a difficult problem to solve perhaps even impossible due to the nature lack of communication between the application wanting to install and apt. It would require a new flag set on all the .deb packages telling apt how much space on install it would require.
Perhaps a better way to solve this issue better is to have a applet watch the disk space and when it is less then say 1gb of free space(On some installs that may still not be enough so might be a good idea to make it adjustable) give a warning when the user logs in informing them to free up space removing unnecessary programs perhaps launch the computer janitor. I do not know if there is already a system in place that does this though due to I have not ever run out of space on a desktop install but have on a server install and had monitor programs watching that. -- Out-of-disk-space is not reported to the user when installing/updating packages fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312491 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
