It kinda sucks when you want to remove packages to free up space but you can't because you're out of space. # eclean-pkg -d * Building file list for packages cleaning... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.9/eclean-pkg", line 41, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gentoolkit/eclean/cli.py", line 505, in main doAction(action, options, exclude=exclude, File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gentoolkit/eclean/cli.py", line 378, in doAction clean_me = findPackages( File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gentoolkit/eclean/search.py", line 560, in findPackages for cpv in bin_dbapi.cpv_all(): File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/dbapi/bintree.py", line 299, in cpv_all self.bintree.populate() File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/dbapi/bintree.py", line 642, in populate self._pkgindex_write(update_pkgindex) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/dbapi/bintree.py", line 1405, in _pkgindex_write f.write(contents) OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device
That is portage code that is trying to write to the disk. And that is for the search, not the actual cleaning... It must be that the binpkg index file was corrupt, so portage was trying to fix it. That is before any actual cleaning is done. eclean only fixes the index (via eclean binhost) after nuking the files. My odroid-c2 small arm64 board fills up root often for large system updates. I have never had an issue with cleaning both distfiles and pkgs. However, I think I might have nuked the portage tmpdir first. But I did move that to a larger partition, so it doesn't affect / anymore. Still my last big update I had to clean up diskspace several times before the update was complete. Near as I can figure so far, there is nothing I can do about it without more info. And then, what should it do, a random file nuke, to make space? I think that should be done by the system admin.
