[oe-issues] [Bug 2428] New: ipkg fills root parition space during upgrade or update

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http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2428

           Summary: ipkg fills root parition space during upgrade or update
           Product: Openembedded
           Version: Angstrom
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Distributions
        AssignedTo: openembedded-issues at lists.openembedded.org
        ReportedBy: carbonfreeze at gmail.com
         QAContact: tinderbox-oe at gmx.net


ipkg sometimes pukes and fills partition space. Issue seems to be somewhat
random. I have experienced it with
Angstrom-x11-image-test-20070422-spitz.rootfs.tar.gz and
Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-test-20070605-spitz.rootfs.tar.gz


When I first noted the issue on
Angstrom-x11-image-test-20070422-spitz.rootfs.tar.gz, it was during an ipkg
upgrade. After calling ipkg upgrade, hard disk activity indicator would light
up, RAM would fill and swap would be at a constant 30mb of usage. After
canceling out of the ipkg upgrade and rebooting, the issue still occoured. I
flashed Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-test-20070605-spitz.rootfs.tar.gz which
cleared the root partition and the issue did not re-occur for a couple of days.

After installing some packages and doing a few ipkg update;ipkg upgrade calls
on Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-test-20070605-spitz.rootfs.tar.gz, I noticed a
similar  issue. Calling ipkg update would cause the download to fill the root
partition while extracting the perl feed's packages.tgz file. This time I
wanted to see how far it would fill up the drive, so I allowed it to run until
it exited with error: 

ipkg: Couldnt write

At this point the root partition was full. I poked around with du to find the
offending large files, and located them in /var/lib/ipkg

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3.2M Jun  6 13:42 base
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       428.5k Jun  6 13:43 debug
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        36.5k Jun  6 13:43 no-arch
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       471.5M Jun  6 13:49 perl
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        62.3k Jun  6 13:32 python
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.1M Jun  6 13:32 spitz


I deleted the offending perl file and called ipkg update;ipkg upgrade, which
worked normally.

Note: this may be a duplicate of #1028.

Used Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-test-20070605-spitz.rootfs.tar.gz as install
media on
machine spitz (slc-3000), fresh ipkg update;ipkg upgrade performed as of bug
report.

Attached is a log of the ipkg update which caused the issue along with a df -h.


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