emerging openoffice screws my system!!!

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tristure · Post by **tristure** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:53 pm

Hi,

Two days ago I tried to emerge Openoffice. At the end of the (long!) compilation, the installation failed because there was no space left on my drive.

I couldn't launch any other applications either... So I wanted to remove files in my tmp directory (portage and all).
It didn't seem to work so I tried to reboot my machine and then... crash! KDE couldn't load, X couldn't even start!!

So I reinstalled Gentoo again, and today I tried to emerge Openoffice again. Before starting my drive had 2.5 Gigs remaining.

Five or six hours later ... there is no space remaining. Kmail won't start, and my openoffice compilation isn't over yet, but no doubt it will fail!!!

WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON THERE????!!!

I DON'T WANT TO REINSTALL GENTOO AGAIN. Emerging KDE really is a pain in the ass!

So haw can I prevent my system to be scrwed? How can I see what directories are too big? And how can I safely clean this mess up?!?

Thanks a lot for your help, my mental health is at stake right now!!

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:06 pm

tristure,

Openoffice wants 3Gb of temp space to build. If you have a default /, /boot and <swap> install, nothing can create any tem files just now.

Log in as root at the console and remove something in /usr/portage/distfiles/

OpenOffice may be a good chilce.

If you want to have another go, clean up the mess, and empty /usr/portage/distfiles/ *except* for OpenOffice. If that doesn't get you at least 3Gb free forget it.

You don't need to reinstall Gentoo.

Regards,

NeddySeagoon

cripwalk · Post by **cripwalk** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:06 pm

Im not sure how big openoffice is compiled but I have couple of thought here:

1. You could emerge just the openoffice binary so you dont have the source and temp files too.

If you want to compile from source then

2. Use the -Os option in your cflags. This will reduce the size of the compiled binaries.

3. Get a bigger hard drive

Post by **pjp** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:25 pm

Moved from Installing Gentoo.

tristure · Post by **tristure** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:23 pm

3Gb free space to compile???!!?
I just can't believe this...

OK anyway I'll check out in usr/portage/distfiles... Hope this will work!

And cripwalk, I do have a big hard drive but my free space is on another partition... Is there a way I can tell Gentoo to emerge and compile stuff in that partition? I would have no problem that way!!

Thanks all for your help, I'm glad to know I won't have to reinstall Gentoo...

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:19 pm

tristure,

There are two ways to get portage to put its tempory files somewhere else.

1) Look through /etc/make.conf and uncomment, then edit the defaults more to your liking. Copy the content ot the old location to the new location

2) Find a large directory in /usr/portage (or even /usr/portsge itsself. Copy it and its contents onto another physical partition and create a symlink by the original name that points to the new loaction.

Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Hydralisk · Post by **Hydralisk** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:28 pm

Portage puts most of its temporary files, including compilation work, in /var/tmp/portage . You can safely "rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/*" as long as you're not compiling at the moment.

nephros · Post by **nephros** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:07 pm

Also note that if you use ccache, it's default is to put the cached files in /root/.ccache. This will quickly fill up your root partition.
Might be a good idea to set CCACHE_DIR to some directory on a large partition, like /usr/tmp or /var/cache or something.