On Saturday 5 January 2002 00:24, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Wow, now that's really cool. What I'm wondering is, can "apt-get", > "dpkg", and friends recover this easily from a device overflow? Was > that thought of during their design and implementation? If it needs > a little more space in "/var" or "/usr", can it notice that before > filling the block device, and prompt me about it, so I can make some > room somehow? (either by removing files, dpkg --purging something, > or using the LVM tools to extend the logical volume and then the > filesystem utility to grow the filesystem.)
That is funny. I had just this problem yesterday... I "apt-get upgrade"-ed and my HD was full... and now my system is in dubious state... Missing KDE icons. Or actually, i think this is caused by a versioning problem that is caused by the upgrade: libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.0.12 libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.2.1 libpng error: Incompatible libpng version in application and library I guess packages are only partly upgraded. Some files are, others are not... I can only fear what other incompatibilities are caused by the upgrade. Now, I am facing the following problem (after making more space): - how can i determine which packages were updated yesterday? - how can i (semi)-automatically reinstall these packages? In the mean time i filed a bug (#127942) against apt for loss of non-critical data. It can be argued wether it is loss or not, but anyway, my systems expects files that are not installed, and thus are missing IMHO... Egon
