failed X11 install, now what?

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:55:07PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:44:43AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> > This is what I found on the screen this morning after letting
> > 
> > make all install clean
> 
> Did you execute this in /usr/ports? Its better to select only the port
> you like to have.
> 
> > run all night:
> > 
> > /usr: write failed, file system is full
> > /usr/bin/tar: xc/fonts/util/KOI8-R.TXT: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
> > /usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
> > /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontScalable.
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4.
> > #
> > 
> > ............................
> > 
> > # df
> > Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/ad0s1a    128990   35170   83502    30%    /
> > /dev/ad0s1f    257998     284  237076     0%    /tmp
> > /dev/ad1s1e   2030062 2015906 -148248   108%    /usr
> > /dev/ad0s1e    257998    2762  234598     1%    /var
> > procfs              4       4       0   100%    /proc
> 
> Just as a tip 'df -h' give human readable output.
> 
> > Which brings to mind a couple questions.
> > 
> > 1. ad1 is a 2GB ide slaved to ad0  which is only 1GB - what must I do 
> > immediately to clear space on ad1 or is nothing impacted with the disk 
> > being over full?
> 
> A port first fetches the sources it need and places these in
> /usr/ports/distfiles/. You could empty this with:
> rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*
> 
> You could also move /usr/src/ and /usr/obj to another machine and mount
> them from there. As a added bonus, you then can let the other machine do
> most of the building during updates of the main system.
> 
> You could also move /usr/ports/ to this machine. You do need to edit the
> working directory in /etc/make.conf (copy it from /etc/defaults/ if it
> doesn't exist) becuase you don't want to mount the working directory.
> 
> > 
> > 2. just how much space should I need? I know that's a loaded question, but 
> > I have another 2.5GB ide I could slave to the secondary port off the cdrom, 
> > or swap some disks around with other networks or; hard to plan unless I can 
> > make guesstimates about the future; is there a space planning guide around 
> > somewhere.
> 
> It depends on what you like to do. My kde workstaion has a 2 GB disk and
> du -h gives: 
> /dev/ad0s1g            2.0G   1.5G   340M    82%    /usr
> 
> This doesn't inculde /usr/ports/, /usr/src/ and /usr/obj/, since I let
> antoher machine handle this. The later two are for upgrading your
> system.
> 
> du -sh /usr/* gives:
> 287M    X11R6
>  11M    bin
>  85M    compat
> 2.0K    export1
> 1.5M    games
> 145M    home (one user)
> 8.8M    include
>  28M    lib
>  11M    libdata
>  16M    libexec
> 879M    local
> 428M    ports (exist on another computer; the minium is 250M)
> 334M    src (exist on another computer)
> 435M    obj (exist on another computer)
> 6.6M    sbin
>  36M    share
> 
> For a workstation with X and sources you need 3G, without souces you
> need 2G.

I do have a /tmp disk with 4G of space for building ports. Jdk requeres
2.5G and open office need 2 - 4 GB of space.

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/