CSSU thumb and exhausted root file system space
 

Hello,
I tried to update my N900 CSSU to CSSU thumb... but it failed because "/" file system was full.
I tried to free as much as possible space, removing packages consuming too much on "/" but it still lacks at least 40 Mb. Now the largest files are xul libraries from MicroB.
Is it a known problem ?
Is there any work-around ?

Thank you in advance
Yves

Re: CSSU thumb and exhausted root file system space
 

Installing stuff from extras-devel is the usual cause.

Re: CSSU thumb and exhausted root file system space
 

I've got bitten recently by similar situation. All space was taken by offline imap support in Modest accounts. Check /home/user/.modest/cache directory with

[edit] sorry, it was /home

Re: CSSU thumb and exhausted root file system space
 

My "/" rootfs was 28 Mo free (over 228 Mo) before upgrading to CSSU thumb.
/var/lib/dpkg is 44 Mo heavy
I have deleted "/var/log/lastlog" - 8 Mo, probably lacks rotation. And also remove "/lib/modules/2.6.28.NIT.06" and /boot/multiboot/vmlinuz-2.6.28.NIT.06" (1.8 Mo)
Is it safe to remove "old" files from /var/lib/dpkg and /var/lib/apt ? (as far as I have a full backup)
I will now replay installation on my QA system... before production.
Thanks

Re: CSSU thumb and exhausted root file system space
 

Multiboot is deprecated as it causes excessive wear on the flash memory.

I'd backup your data and do a full reflash as per

http://wiki.maemo.org/Reflash

Re: CSSU thumb and exhausted root file system space
 

Thanks. multiboot was not the problem itself. I already replaced it by u-boot. But package "nitdroid-kernel" failed to uninstall because "nitdroid-installer" is no longer available (requires multiboot)
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...96&postcount=8

I will avoid to reflash... until I am really desperate.

Re: CSSU thumb and exhausted root file system space
 

Hmm. First backup your entire N900.
You probably only need to mess with rootfs & not optfs.
rootfs is at / downwards. optfs is at /home, & /opt downwards.
When you install apps, many of them go under /usr/lib, /usr/bin & /usr/share. Try temporarily moving only app specific folders, new and large directories from those locations to say a temporary /opt/z directory. Do this until you have space to install CSSU thumb.

You can ignore this if you're not familiar.

kh

Re: CSSU thumb and exhausted root file system space
 

I have also uninstalled bash4 and gdb, so that I have 36 Mb free on rootfs before upgrade.
But the upgrade process by "apt-get upgrade" still complains with "no space left on device"... after fixing with "dpkg --configure -a" and another "apt-get upgrade" it succeeded with only 3 Mb free on rootfs.

After reboot and some days, rootfs is now 38 Mb free. Strange, it looks like the upgrade requires a lot of temporary space that gets freed only with cron tasks.

My suspect is /var/lib/dpkg which was 44 Mb after the first upgrade failure and is now 16 Mb large.

Re: CSSU thumb and exhausted root file system space
 

Do you have libicu48 installed?
Try to identify which directories use up most rootfs

Re: CSSU thumb and exhausted root file system space
 

If you do the upgrade via the X-Terminal, you will have to remove the downloaded packages manually:This is done by HildonApplicationManager, also via the auto-upgrade run in background or FasterApplicationManager.
Doing it manually may speed things up.