Dist upgrade Install proceeds with insufficient disk space

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh]

Binary package hint: update-manager

The upgrade manager complained that I had too little space to do the upgrade -- good job. So I cleared the required space (it told me how much I needed) plus an additional 400MB or so. I then restarted upgrade manager and began the install of 10.10beta. It managed to download the packages but pretty soon after starting the installations, the disk space was down to zero.

I deleted /usr/share/doc mid-install to give it a chance.

It ought not to allow an install to proceed if there is not enough disk space. If it's hard to calculate exactly, maybe at least some considerable margin should be required?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.134.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.43-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 19 23:22:14 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

Followup: Despite my deleting 0.5GB of space in doc/, the installation refilled the entire disk and failed, telling me that my system would now be unusable!

This now seems like a critical bug. There must be a better estimate of the space needed for the install -- the current estimate was off by well over a GB.

c

[ssdg (sylvain-delafoy)]

I was affected too, and it was weird...

I cleaned just enought disk space. Launched the upgrade and waited (keeping gnome-system-monitor open)

During the decompression of sauerbraten-data, it told me that free space went down to 0 bytes.

When switching to the next package free space went up a bit.

Then around a kernel related package it went back down to 0 (i remember seeing "depmod" on the "console" while system-monitor first showed 0bytes left)

For a while, packages where configured with 0 disk space left.

and when it restarted mysql, the console stoped. (I had to remove /var/cache/apt/archive/sauerbraten-data... with "rm" and kill the mysql starting process)

the update ended a few minutes ago and the computer is running 10.10 OK as type. But I'm concern by my system's integrity.

I hope this will help prevent someone having his updage process frozen as mine was.