[aur-general] yaourt - tmpfs error: No space left on device

[Филип Брчић]

Hi,

I had the same problem with some large packages. The solution is to make ~/tmp/yaourt and have in your ~/.yaourtrc set TMPDIR=/home/csanyipal/tmp/yaourt (if that's your username).

If you use /tmp, then building will be faster, but everything will be in the memory drive (tmpfs 3.2G ... /tmp = in memory). That is better for smaller packages, but if you run chrome or firefox with lots of tabs and some more memory-intensive programs, you'll end up with the "no space left" message.

Cheers o7
Filip

19.07.2014, 13:17, "Csányi Pál" <csanyipal at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I have been told on arch-general mailing list that that this problem
> should be post here too, because this is an AUR problem.
>
> I'm trying to install icecat with yaourt but get always error: No
> space left on device.
>
> $ df -H
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3        66G   38G   26G  60% /
> tmpfs           3.2G     0  3.2G   0% /dev/shm
> tmpfs           3.2G     0  3.2G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> tmpfs           3.2G  3.2G  160k 100% /tmp
> tmpfs           627M  4.1k  627M   1% /run/user/1000
>
> I have installed my arch linux on one partition only, on /dev/sda3.
>
> I tried to install icecat several times, moreover after a reboot too,
> but always get this error message.
>
> I tried also to setup yaourt and makepkg:
> /etc/yaourtrc
> TMPDIR="/tmp"
>
> /etc/makepkg.conf
> BUILDDIR=/tmp/makepkg
>
> Still get the above error.
>
> $ free -h
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 5.8G 4.2G 1.6G 2.9G 64M 3.2G
> -/+ buffers/cache: 928M 4.9G
> Swap: 511M 0B 511M
>
> /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/sda3   /  ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered  0 1
> /dev/cdrom  /media/cdrom    iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide  0 0
> /swapfile  none  swap defaults 0 0
>
> On the arch-general mailing list I get the following advices.
>
> * From Daniel Micay:
> Stop building a very large package in a filesystem of very limited size.
> The BUILDDIR option is unset by default, and if you leave it unset
> `makepkg` will work fine.
>
> * From me:
> Before I edited the file: /etc/makepkg.conf
>
> I tried to install with yaourt the icecat package but get the same
> error message.
> That is way I edited the /etc/makepkg.conf file and set the BUILDDIR option to:
> BUILDDIR=/tmp/makepkg
>
> So, leaving it unset doesn't work here.
>
> * From Daniel Micay:
> Leave it unset and build with makepkg directly.
>>  Set BUILDDIR=/var/tmp instead, /tmp is filling up.
>
> Or just use the *default* of not building in a global directory...
> especially /tmp which is a ramdisk.
>
> * From Mark Lee:
> I just looked at yaourt's yaourtrc and it's clear that it's storing
> its temporary files in /tmp. Building with yaourt means building in
> tmpfs which would for large compilation jobs can exhaust the tmpfs
> file system. Either extend the size of /tmp by specifying a larger
> size when mounting in /tmp (using fstab or just command line) or set a
> different direcotry via yaourt --tmp <temporary directory>.
>
> This should really be posted to the AUR mailing list since it's an AUR
> issue. I hope this helps.
>
> * From Ralf Mardorf:
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep tmp /etc/fstab
> #tmpfs   /tmp         tmpfs   nodev,nosuid,size=3G          0  0
>
> It's commented out, but I once had to use it and it solved the issue for
> me.
>
> * From John Broggs:
> The best way to overcome this error is to allocate the space you need in
> fstab as per the instructions on the fstab page on ArchWiki.
>
> * From Bigby James:
> systemd will allocate /tmp to a ramdisk by default, whether you specify it or
> not. Specifying tmpfs in /etc/fstab allows you to dictate how large the ramdisk
> is, but unless you explicitly stop systemd from mounting /tmp in RAM that's
> where it will go.
>
> I solve this problem by building icecat directly with makepkg.
>
> --
> Regards from Pal