Re: Diagnosing "In procedure symlink: No space left on device"

[David Wilson]

Turns out it was indeed a lack of inodes :/ 

Thanks!

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 10:06 AM, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> Le 10 février 2020 12:30:21 GMT-05:00, David Wilson <address@hidden> 
> a écrit :
> >Hello Guix!
> >
> >Recently on one of my machines I've not been able to update one of my
> >profiles due to a "No space left on device" error (see snippet below). 
> >My device is most definitely not out of space (/dev/dm-0 has 42gb
> >free):
> >
> >---
> >λ df -h
> >Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >none            7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
> >/dev/dm-0       234G  180G   42G  82% /
> >/dev/nvme0n1p2  495M   43M  453M   9% /boot/efi
> >tmpfs           7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
> >none            7.8G   28K  7.8G   1% /run/systemd
> >none            7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /run/user
> >cgroup          7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> >tmpfs           1.6G  4.0K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000
> >---
> >
> >Here's the backtrace from `guix package -m <my manifest file>`
> >
> >---
> >Backtrace:
> > 8 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/mablf146gb6vb0m1lj9a9yr4cfj…")
> >In guix/build/profiles.scm:
> > 157:2 7 (build-profile "/gnu/store/mdzxrmx68qkpakhy1n5vk6lzvnq…" …)
> >In unknown file:
> > 6 (hash-for-each #<procedure 7ffff2e7cb80 at guix/build/…> …)
> > 5 (hash-for-each #<procedure 7ffff2852e40 at guix/build/…> …)
> > 4 (hash-for-each #<procedure 7ffff2852a40 at guix/build/…> …)
> > 3 (hash-for-each #<procedure 7ffff2889e00 at guix/build/…> …)
> > 2 (hash-for-each #<procedure 7ffff783e200 at guix/build/…> …)
> > 1 (hash-for-each #<procedure 7ffff2e068c0 at guix/build/…> …)
> > 0 (symlink "/gnu/store/z74railpdshvi28i1rfa97fp2d9rg79d-…" …)
> >
> >ERROR: In procedure symlink:
> >In procedure symlink: No space left on device
> >---
> >
> >Is there some other reason that Guix might think that I'm out of space?
> >Is there any other command I can run that might help illuminate why I'm
> >getting this error?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >David
> 
> It coull be you ran out of inode (but I doubt it) or that the tmpfs ran 
> out of space, not your root fs. What were you trying to build? 
> Something big I suppose?
>