Bug 239530

Summary:	unable to merge sun-jdk with /var/tmp on ramfs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jaco Kroon <jaco>
Component:	[OLD] Java	Assignee:	Java team <java>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Jaco Kroon 2008-10-04 12:34:32 UTC

Hi,

For various reasons I'm running /var/tmp on a ramfs, and with this configuration I'm unable to merge sun-jdk, it complains that there isn't sufficient disk space available.

It seems to be using a "free" checker of sorts to determine wither sufficient space will be available, due to the way ramfs functions, this will always fail as ramfs always has exactly 0 bytes free according to df.

Suggestion: Create a patch to the jdk-*.bin files that skips this checks if /var/tmp/portage/ resides on ramfs.

Workaround, remount /var with exec, then umount /var/tmp, when done, remount /var with noexec, and remount /var/tmp.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Alistair Bush (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-09 11:01:13 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 218911 ***