343119 – unclear error output when $PKGDIR is full

Bug 343119 - unclear error output when $PKGDIR is full

Summary: unclear error output when $PKGDIR is full

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2010-10-28 17:34 UTC by Robin Johnson
Modified:	2022-10-20 02:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Robin Johnson archtester

2010-10-28 17:34:42 UTC

# emerge -1v live  --nodeps
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module>
    retval = emerge_main()
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1323, in emerge_main
    _global_updates(trees, mtimedb["updates"], quiet=("--quiet" in myopts)):
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/_global_updates.py", line 50, in _global_updates
    bindb.bintree.populate()
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py", line 517, in populate
    self._populate(getbinpkgs)
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py", line 735, in _populate
    f.close()
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1122, in close
    f.close()
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

Root cause is that the mountpoint for $PKGDIR has run out of space.

Suggested fix:
- Check for free space before trying to write the Packages file?

Comment 1 James Stevenson 2021-08-15 17:51:59 UTC

I reckon that we could check disk usage with shutil before writing. Will look into putting something together.