crash with re-install of 7.04 over 6.0.6
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I had Ubunto 6.0.6 running OK. I decided to upgrade to 7.04, so I installed it normally. It run OK, but made created a too small swap file ( 256) . At some point, after using the 7.04 normally for a while I got amessage "swap file 100% full". I tried rebooting and than I could nnot log in anymore as user: GDP cannot write to disk, disk is full.
Mu disk had 20MB empty space at that point, but it seems Ubuntu 6.0.6, which was note deleted, was eating up all disk space. Everything crashed, 7.04 would not re-install at all.
Please find a way to enabel us to easily INCREASE the swap file on demand. I had 20MB of free space and the computer crashed completely for "lack of swap file space".
Why setup created a 256Kb swap file in a disk with 20MB free space ?
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 22 15:04:35 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Package: synaptic 0.57.11.1ubuntu14
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
ProcCwd: /home/jrcampos
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=/
LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux jrcampos-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
| jrcampos (j-r-campos) wrote | #1 |
| Stanz (stanz) wrote | #2 |
Given the age of report and no further updates by the poster--I tag this invalid.
Advice: Use version 7.10, Save what you need, proceed with fresh install--delete and format old "/" partition, "ensure proper swap size", create "/" again on deleted "/" partition (size optional), make changes to disk.
Result: Grub stays stable--swap stays or grows--fresh install is always best choice.