FS#11975 - Pacman can brick whole system when run out of disk space

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tomas Mudrunka (harvie) - Monday, 03 November 2008, 13:01 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 03 November 2008, 13:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: If theres no space left on root filesystem during upgrading/installing packages, pacman screws whole system and leave packages installed just partially or uninstalled without reporting any error or warning. This should damage/remove system binaries and other files which are needed to boot, etc...

theres possibility of some another errors caused by pacman when no space left...

In my case that made unusable binaries like: pacman (so i cant repair the system), halt, and many nescessary things...


Steps to reproduce:
install or upgrade few packages with little space left on /

How to repair?
- check diskspace before proceeding whole upgrade
- check diskspace before installing each single package
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Monday, 03 November 2008, 13:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#11639 

Loading...