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Bug#924909: texlive-fonts-extra: dpkg install texlive-fonts-extra_2018.20190227-1_all.deb hangs

From	ael <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#924909: texlive-fonts-extra: dpkg install texlive-fonts-extra_2018.20190227-1_all.deb hangs
Date	2019-03-18 17:20 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 09:08:31PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > but /tmp is on RAM:
> > with (by default) 7.8GB free.
> 
> Could be critical. The file, the unpacked version etc all might be
> located in tmp.
> 
> Can you for the time being set /tmp to something outside of RAM 
> (maybe export TMPDIR=/var/tmp is already enough?) and retry.

Yes. That seems to be the solution. Works with TMPDIR=/var/tmp :-)

I tried to monitor du -sh /var/tmp/ during the run, but I didn't see
more than 32K in use. Maybe I just missed it, but dpkg was writing a lot
of debug info during the run, so I thought that there was a good chance
of catching something.

But, ho, hum, surely needing more than around 8GB of temporary space is
a bit extreme? Is there anything you can do to reduce the overhead?
I know that you don't like splitting texlive packages too far, but I do
have a fairly powerful machine with plenty of RAM, so it  is a bit
alarming that it falls over in default mode.

Thanks for the help. Not sure whether the bug should be closed : it
might help others who hit the same problem.

ael

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Bug#924909: texlive-fonts-extra: dpkg install texlive-fonts-extra_2018.20190227-1_all.deb hangs ael <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com> - 2019-03-18 11:00 +0100
  Bug#924909: texlive-fonts-extra: dpkg install texlive-fonts-extra_2018.20190227-1_all.deb hangs Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> - 2019-03-18 11:30 +0100
    Bug#924909: texlive-fonts-extra: dpkg install texlive-fonts-extra_2018.20190227-1_all.deb hangs ael <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com> - 2019-03-18 12:30 +0100
      Bug#924909: texlive-fonts-extra: dpkg install texlive-fonts-extra_2018.20190227-1_all.deb hangs Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> - 2019-03-18 13:20 +0100
        Bug#924909: texlive-fonts-extra: dpkg install texlive-fonts-extra_2018.20190227-1_all.deb hangs ael <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com> - 2019-03-18 17:20 +0100

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