Update Manager fails without explanation when out of disk space
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| synaptic (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I tried to do a test install of Ubuntu 9.04 Beta in a VirtualBox 2.2 VM but it quickly became unusable. I now realize that I didn't allocate enough disk space (just 2.6 GB) for the disk image, but I never received any warnings about "out of space".
The initial install went fine and the new OS rebooted after copy and worked fine. But then the Update Manager failed without explanation. I switched to using the 'Mark Upgrades' function in Synaptic and I was able to install many of the available updates. But I continued to have failures as I would repeatedly Quit, reboot, retry Synaptic. Finally there started to be a pattern -- the updates would fail with the message, "failed in buffer_write(fd)". I couldn't find any reference to it on the VirtualBox forums so I tried Google'ing it, at which point I learned it was related to disk space. Sure enough, my VM had zero bytes free.
Shouldn't the OS warn of low disk space, much less Synaptic and/or Update Manager?
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler) wrote | #1 |
This is basically what Bug 312491 discusses, therefore closing this as duplicate of that one.