Re: File size limit exceeded

2009-05-31 Thread Miguel Obliviemo
Thanks to all who helped with this. I don't think it's a Debian thing, but something closer to the metal. I'm sometimes getting this message with cp. But certainly, the Debian way won't work on this computer at present. I'll probably do a virgin install on another partition, and in the meantime

Re: File size limit exceeded

2009-05-30 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 21:52 +0930, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In , Miguel Obliviemo > > wrote: > >> apt-get remove postfix: > >> Processing triggers for man-db ... > >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst: > >> line 3: 6289 File size limit exce

Re: File size limit exceeded

2009-05-30 Thread Miguel Obliviemo
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In , Miguel Obliviemo wrote: apt-get remove postfix: Processing triggers for man-db ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst: line 3: 6289 File size limit exceededperl -e '@pwd = getpwnam("man"); $( = $) = $pwd[3]; $< = $> = $pwd[2];

Re: File size limit exceeded

2009-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Miguel Obliviemo wrote: >apt-get remove postfix: >Processing triggers for man-db ... >/var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst: line 3: 6289 File size limit > exceededperl -e '@pwd = getpwnam("man"); $( = $) = $pwd[3]; $< = $> > = $pwd[2]; > exec "/usr/bin/mandb", @ARGV' -- "$@" >

Re: File size limit exceeded for files > 2GB

2004-08-20 Thread Emiliano
Emiliano wrote: Hy everibody, when creating files bigger than 2GB I get error "File size limit exceeded"... I use woody, kernel 2.6.7, libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13, and this is the output from ulimit -a: core file size(blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (

Re: File size limit exceeded for files > 2GB

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Emiliano wrote: Hy everibody, when creating files bigger than 2GB I get error "File size limit exceeded"... I use woody, kernel 2.6.7, libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13, and this is the output from ulimit -a: core file size(blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (

Re: File size limit exceeded for files > 2GB

2004-08-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:02:08AM +, Emiliano wrote: > Hy everibody, > when creating files bigger than 2GB I get error "File size limit > exceeded"... > I use woody, kernel 2.6.7, libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13, and this is the output > from ulimit -a: > > core file size(blocks, -c) 0 > data seg

Re: File size limit exceeded

2002-05-13 Thread Dr. Christoph H. LARSEN
Hi Ian - what exactly am I supposed to look for in the lsof listing (stupid question, probably, but...) Thanks a lot, Chris On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 23:11, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On 2002.05.13 07:44 Dr. Christoph H. LARSEN wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > Thanks for your prompt reply. Problem: I do not have

Re: File size limit exceeded

2002-05-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.13 07:44 Dr. Christoph H. LARSEN wrote: Hi Ian, Thanks for your prompt reply. Problem: I do not have wmheader program anywhere ;-(. There must be another reason why I get this silly eror message. Any thoughts? Thanks a million. Have you tried running lsof? That would be your best b

Re: File size limit exceeded

2002-05-13 Thread Dr. Christoph H. LARSEN
Hi Ian, Thanks for your prompt reply. Problem: I do not have wmheader program anywhere ;-(. There must be another reason why I get this silly eror message. Any thoughts? Thanks a million. Chris On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 21:26, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On 2002.05.12 02:16 Dr. Christoph H. LARSEN wrot

Re: File size limit exceeded

2002-05-12 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.12 02:16 Dr. Christoph H. LARSEN wrote: Everything went well, until I wanted to format a hard drive. By then mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, mkfs.reiserfs, and even mkfs.vfat and mkfs.msdos gave me the error message: File size limit exceeded As this error has never occured prior to my recent lib