Re: [iPAQ] ipkg error

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Philip Blundell wrote:
| On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 20:17, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
|
|>Last night I ran out of flash while doing an ipkg upgrade
|>(/var/log/syslog did me in). Now all I get is this when I run ipkg:
|>
|>sh-2.03# ipkg
|>Bus error
|>
|>What can I do to repair it?
|
|
| Looks like some system binary (ipkg itself, or one of its libraries) is
| corrupt. If enough of the system is still working for you to copy files
| from an external source, you can probably replace these files one at a
| time until the problem is fixed.
|
| Running out of flash during an upgrade of critical system packages like
| libc will often break the system badly enough that you have to reflash
| the root filesystem. You need to make sure there is plenty of space
| before embarking on that kind of exercise.

Should not rather ipkg check that there is enough space to download&unpack
a package before installing it? I think that would be the right way to go.
At least a check befor the unpack could not hurt and would not require
additional information.

Marcus
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Received on Sat Jul 13 07:17:10 2002