Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 with latest kernel just installed reports /home partition full when not

["Mike's List" <mikelist@xxxxxxx>]

Regarding the inode issue, did you use the current OSRCD 2.0 from cobalt's
ftp server or the older OSRCD (or was the server never gets restore?)?


- Mike


On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Steve Werby wrote:

> Earlier today I was preparing to install a newer version of Python and the
> latest version of Mailman on a client's RaQ4 (RaQ4 hardware and RaQ4
> software).  Part way through unpacking the source tarball for Python onto
> the /home partition, tar starting issuing error messages like the following:
> 
> tar: Python-2.2.2/Tools/unicode: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
> Python-2.2.2/Tools/unicode/makeunicodedata.py
> 
> So I checked partition usage.
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1             726M  617M   71M  90% /
> /dev/hda3             194M   19M  165M  10% /var
> /dev/hda4             8.2G  2.6G  5.1G  34% /home
> 
> Not only did the /home partition have plenty of space, but the other
> partitions did as well.  I tried creating a directory and a file within the
> /home partition to see if that was possible (both failed).
> 
> mkdir Python-2.2.2/Tools
> mkdir: cannot create directory `Python-2.2.2/Tools': No space left on device
> 
> I also tried unpacking the tarball to /root (which is on the / partition)
> and it worked without incident.  It's definitely not an issue with the
> tarball as I tried another tarball, mkdir and touch with the same results.
> 
> I did some research and didn't find anything conclusive so I removed some
> unnecessary files from the partition in case it truely was full and df was
> incorrect (I removed ~500 MB of files).  I received the same error.  I
> checked the Apache logs to see if they were being written to and they were.
> The client tried creating a user through the GUI and it wouldn't allow it,
> reporting that the directory couldn't be created.
> 
> Next the client rebooted and that didn't help.  I proceeded to disable all
> services accessing the /home partition, unmount /home using umount and run
> fsck in interactive repair mode.  It outputted:
> 
> Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999)
> [/sbin/fsck.ext2 -- /home] fsck.ext2 -r /dev/hda4
> e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /dev/hda4: clean, 67448/67456 files, 2752127/8632512 blocks
> 
> I tried restarting all services, but Apache wouldn't restart (the admin
> Apache server would though).
> 
> # From /var/log/httpd/error
> Thu Jan 16 14:07:41 2003] [error] mod_ssl: Parent process could not create
> SSLMutex lockfile /var/log/httpd/ssl_mutex.3142 (System error follows)
> [Thu Jan 16 14:07:41 2003] [error] System: No space left on device (errno:
> 28)
> 
> I then killed the processes, unmounted the partition and ran fsck again and
> it outputted:
> 
> Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999)
> [/sbin/fsck.ext2 -- /home] fsck.ext2 -r /dev/hda4
> e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /dev/hda4: clean, 67456/67456 files, 2752145/8632512 blocks
> 
> I checked /var/log/kernel and didn't see anything that jumped out at me.
> Right now the box is rebooting with -F to force fsck.  I did some other
> diagnostics, but nothing that gave me any useful info.  The box has not  had
> any RAM or disk installed recently.  I had noticed that it was rebooted 26
> hours ago and asked the client about that and he said that was because he
> had installed the latest Kernel package.
> 
> Has anyone encountered this?  Any chance it's related to the new Kernel?  If
> so, can I revert to the previous Kernel or does anyone have other advice?
> 
> --
> Steve Werby
> President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
> http://www.befriend.com/
> 
> 
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