Bug 10305 – Application Manager in PR1.2 says not enough space even though there is.

Bug 10305 - (int-171329) Application Manager in PR1.2 says not enough space even though there is.

(int-171329)
Summary:	Application Manager in PR1.2 says not enough space even though there is.

Status:	NEW

Product:	Settings and Maintenance
Component:	Application manager
Version:	5.0:(10.2010.19-1)
Platform:	N900 Maemo

Importance:	Unspecified critical with 9 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	unassigned
QA Contact:	application-manager-bugs

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Reported:	2010-05-26 16:41 UTC by Hans Joergensen
Modified:	2011-08-10 10:01 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Description Hans Joergensen (reporter) 2010-05-26 16:41:34 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION:
PR 1.2 Global.

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
1. I flashed my N900 to PR 1.2 Global (Didn't flash eMMC)
2. I restored a backup made on the device to the build in flash (with the
backup-app)
3. After restoring the backup I restored applications in the applications
manager.
4. I had quite a large number of apps installed, some of them from
extras-devel, it said it would need 2.6GB, I thought that since it needed that
much it would install some of it in in MyDocs, so just clicked okay.
5. After some installing it says it ran out of space.. That was not true since
it did have like 100MB free in /home at the time.
6. Now, when ever I try to install anything application manager says that
theres not enough space.

REPRODUCIBILITY:
Always on my device, however I'm not sure if it has something to do with not
reflashing eMMC.

OTHER COMMENTS:
Heres a dump of the Application Manager log trying to install a random package.

hildon-application-manager 2.2.65
connected to 79b3b35b-3619-4445-adaf-10cbaf87a338
-----
Installing omweather-icons-shiny 0.3.2
apt-worker: free space (/) = 80756736
apt-worker: free space (/home/user/MyDocs/.apt-archive-cache/) = 4248043520
apt-worker: free space (/home/) = 162316288
apt-worker: total space (/home/) = 2113748992
apt-worker: You don't have enough free space in /home
apt-worker: free space (/home/.apt-archive-cache/) = 162316288
apt-worker: free space (/home/) = 162316288
apt-worker: total space (/home/) = 2113748992
apt-worker: You don't have enough free space in /home
apt-worker: free space (/var/cache/apt/archives/) = 162316288
apt-worker: free space (/home/) = 162316288
apt-worker: total space (/home/) = 2113748992
apt-worker: You don't have enough free space in /home
required disk space: 639152
result code = 7

Comment 1 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2010-05-26 19:50:42 UTC

Hi,

please start X Terminal and provide theoutput of the command
df -h

Comment 2 Hans Joergensen (reporter) 2010-05-26 22:00:46 UTC

Sorry, should have done so from the start:
--------
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                  227.8M    147.9M     75.7M  66% /
ubi0:rootfs             227.8M    147.9M     75.7M  66% /
tmpfs                     1.0M     88.0k    936.0k   9% /tmp
tmpfs                   256.0k     76.0k    180.0k  30% /var/run
none                     10.0M     72.0k      9.9M   1% /dev
tmpfs                    64.0M      4.0k     64.0M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2            2.0G      1.7G    154.1M  92% /home
/home/opt                 2.0G      1.7G    154.1M  92% /opt
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
                          2.0G      1.7G    154.1M  92% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
                          2.0G      1.7G    154.1M  92% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
                          2.0G      1.7G    154.1M  92% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
                          2.0G      1.7G    154.1M  92%
/usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
                          2.0G      1.7G    154.1M  92% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1           27.0G     23.5G      3.5G  87% /home/user/MyDocs
-------

Comment 3 Hans Joergensen (reporter) 2010-05-27 01:11:32 UTC

Seems to me like apt-worker is calculating something wrong.

I tried removing the package and installing it again.. no difference.
Also I tried uninstalling a bunch of stuff, and sure enough when I had around
200MB free on /home I was allowed to install some packages ca. 1MB in size..
However it started complaining again after a few smaller packages was
installed.. Still with around 175MB free space on /home.. weird?

Comment 4 Hans Joergensen (reporter) 2010-05-27 17:20:45 UTC

Oh, just read my last post and noticed it can be confusing..
What i tried uninstalling and installing again was hildon-application-manager
which includes apt-worker.

Heres another guy with the problem:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=54001

Comment 5 Thomas Rinsma 2010-05-27 18:58:14 UTC

I'm having the exact same problem. I also flashed to PR1.2 Global and did not
flash the eMMC. When restoring the applications backup it also ran out of space
in the end (about 10 applications left) and told me I did not have enough free
application memory.
Here's my 'df -h' output (without the python stuff):

Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                  227.9M    162.1M     61.6M  72% /
ubi0:rootfs             227.9M    162.1M     61.6M  72% /
tmpfs                     1.0M     80.0k    944.0k   8% /tmp
tmpfs                   256.0k    104.0k    152.0k  41% /var/run
none                     10.0M     80.0k      9.9M   1% /dev
tmpfs                    64.0M      4.0k     64.0M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2            2.0G      1.8G    113.9M  94% /home
/home/opt                 2.0G      1.8G    113.9M  94% /opt
/dev/mmcblk0p1           27.0G     20.9G      6.1G  77% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1            3.7G     46.3M      3.6G   1% /media/mmc1

And here's the log of the application manager:
-----
Installing petrovich 0.2
apt-worker: free space (/) = 64634880
apt-worker: Not handling unrelated package account-plugin-salut.
apt-worker: Not handling unrelated package telepathy-extras.
apt-worker: Not handling unrelated package account-plugin-salut.
apt-worker: Not handling unrelated package telepathy-extras.
apt-worker: free space (/home/user/MyDocs/.apt-archive-cache/) = 6552420352
apt-worker: free space (/home/) = 119463936
apt-worker: total space (/home/) = 2113748992
apt-worker: You don't have enough free space in /home
apt-worker: Not handling unrelated package account-plugin-salut.
apt-worker: Not handling unrelated package telepathy-extras.
apt-worker: free space (/media/mmc1/.apt-archive-cache/) = 3902472192
apt-worker: free space (/home/) = 119463936
apt-worker: total space (/home/) = 2113748992
apt-worker: You don't have enough free space in /home
apt-worker: Not handling unrelated package account-plugin-salut.
apt-worker: Not handling unrelated package telepathy-extras.
apt-worker: free space (/home/.apt-archive-cache/) = 119463936
apt-worker: free space (/home/) = 119463936
apt-worker: total space (/home/) = 2113748992
apt-worker: You don't have enough free space in /home
apt-worker: Not handling unrelated package account-plugin-salut.
apt-worker: Not handling unrelated package telepathy-extras.
apt-worker: free space (/var/cache/apt/archives/) = 119463936
apt-worker: free space (/home/) = 119463936
apt-worker: total space (/home/) = 2113748992
apt-worker: You don't have enough free space in /home
required disk space: 8952
result code = 7

Comment 6 Archibald Gwashavanhu 2010-05-27 19:26:28 UTC

I have the the same problem I a bit of an amateur so most of the comment have
gone over my head in term of the finer details but I'm sure I'm in the same
boat. My application manager stops at 246mb free. Can anyone shed some light on
the way forward or how it works in Bugzilla.

Comment 7 Eero Tamminen nokia

2010-06-03 17:01:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Here's my 'df -h' output (without the python stuff):
> 
> Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> rootfs                  227.9M    162.1M     61.6M  72% /
...
> /dev/mmcblk0p2            2.0G      1.8G    113.9M  94% /home
...
> apt-worker: You don't have enough free space in /home

Unlike rootfs (ubifs), home (ext3) isn't compressed, so less data fits into
same space.

A bit over 100MB is quite little space for a partition where you have all your
thumbnails generated, tracker database, emails, contacts etc. changing
content/data.  Without knowing the reason for the limits, filling it more with
just application manager sounds quite risky.

(On rootfs the limit can be a bit smaller as it's data growth is mostly
controlled by application manager.)

Comment 8 Hans Joergensen (reporter) 2010-06-03 17:32:09 UTC

Still it seems a bit steep to reserve 200MB of space for it.. A better way to
solve this IMHO would be to have a warning pop up when the device is running
out of space..

Comment 9 Colin 2010-08-31 19:49:02 UTC

HI 

I have the same problem too! "Not enough space to install application" it is
also causing me problems when it comes to reading and storing SMS messages.  I
have deleted loads of applications, rebooted and still I fget the same message.
 Any solutions???

Thanks!

Comment 10 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2010-09-01 14:09:31 UTC

Colin: For known info see this bug report. Apart from that please use
http://talk.maemo.org for forum-style (non-technical) communication.

Comment 11 Archibald Gwashavanhu 2010-09-01 14:39:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #9)
> HI I tried using the maemo flasher 3.5 do a complete eMMC flash but the phone failed to respond becuase of this problem. I took the phone to my local Nokia care centre and they were unable to fix it. So I had to send it off to Nokia Care with a form they gave me. I'm in the UK. Phone return with a factory resetand completely blank. Used back up from memory card to resort things and application manager work again. 
> 
> I have the same problem too! "Not enough space to install application" it is
> also causing me problems when it comes to reading and storing SMS messages.  I
> have deleted loads of applications, rebooted and still I fget the same message.
>  Any solutions???
> 
> Thanks!
>