[Sugar-devel] Adventures in the land of ENOSPC

[Gonzalo Odiard]

>
>
> The good:
>  - During the sugar session, activities politely complained that they
> could not save their session when closing, nothing crashed.
>  - The Journal did sometimes pop up the warning, but it was trivial to
> click ok and continue.
>  - I could perform Journal ops, deleting some existing Journal entries.
>  - Shutdown/restart worked correctly
>  - The OS and Sugar came up correctly on the next boot
>
>
The situation improved in linux. A few years ago, fill the disk was really
bad.
Now is no a big problem (I know because my disk is at 96% aprox)



> The bad:
>  - Next boot, my Journal was gone. Actually, it's not gone, I can see
> the files in ~/.sugar/default/datastore, but it is corrupt or the
> Journal thread died, so it won't display in the Journal UI. If you are
> really out of disk space, you need to see them in the journal to
> delete them!
>

Anything in datastore.log?
Can be related to http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2317 ?

Gonzalo


>  - Freeing up some space, I can start using the journal again, and new
> entries survive a reboot. However, on-disk I see both old and new
> entries in the 'datastore' dir.
>
> I'll try to make time to understand wth is going on with the journal
> here. IIRC, we used to have a trigger to "reindex" the journal when
> the indexes seemed corrupt. That is not kicking in -- it would be
> helpful if it did :-)
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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