Bug 262694 – [2.2_rc25 portage] no space left on device

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2009-03-16 19:10:07 UTC]

I have this weird situation

when I try to emerge I get this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 40, in <module>
    retval = _emerge.emerge_main()
  File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 15666, in emerge_main
    display_news_notification(root_config, myopts)
  File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 12257, in display_news_notification
    portdb, vardb, NEWS_PATH, UNREAD_PATH, repo, update=update)
  File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 12516, in checkUpdatedNewsItems
    return manager.getUnreadItems( repo_id, update=update )
  File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/news.py", line 158, in getUnreadItems
    unread_lock = lockfile(unread_filename, wantnewlockfile=1)
  File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/locks.py", line 62, in lockfile
    myfd = os.open(lockfilename, os.O_CREAT|os.O_RDWR, 0660)
OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device: '/var/lib/gentoo/news/.news-kde.unread.portage_lockfile'



However, /var has plenty of free space

Eternity ~ # df -h /var/
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              28G  3.9G   23G  15% /var



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.use portage-2.2_rc25
2.emerge something
3.

Actual Results:  
No space left on device

Expected Results:  
Every emerge should work fine

[Comment 1 Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2009-03-16 19:13:41 UTC]

Run "df -i".

I put £10 on you're out of inodes.

[Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2009-03-16 19:41:27 UTC]

Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda3            1831424  170463 1660961   10% /var


Gimmie your 10 pounds :P

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2009-03-16 22:11:08 UTC]

Are you able to create new files inside the /var/lib/gentoo/news/ directory? If you have remaining inodes then it seems like a kernel/filesystem issue that might be solved by fsck or a reboot.

[Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2009-03-16 23:46:41 UTC]

Yes I am able to create files on /var/lib/gentoo/news. Reboot & fsck didn solve the problem

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2009-03-17 05:20:43 UTC]

Do you remember changing anything immediately before you started experiencing this problem? This is reminiscent of bug 262281, but that resulted in EPERM rather than ENOSPC. If you temporarily mount a different file system on /var/lib/gentoo/news, does the problem disappear?

[Comment 6 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2009-03-29 22:47:07 UTC]

Ok today I touched again this machine. I performed an emerge -uDNav world and everything seems smooth now. So I am closing this as invalid since I cant reproduce it anymore :)