update-manage incorrectly reports free disk space

Bug #137539 reported by Tom Haddon
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Software Updater
Fix Released
Undecided
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Running "sudo update-manager -c -d" to upgrade to gutsy, I get a message saying I need 908MB free in /usr and I need to free up 48MB.

df -h shows I have plenty of free disk space:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/.static/dev/hda2
                      9.9G 7.1G 2.4G 76% /
varrun 379M 248K 379M 1% /var/run
varlock 379M 4.0K 379M 1% /var/lock
procbususb 379M 160K 379M 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev 379M 160K 379M 1% /dev
devshm 395M 0 395M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 379M 34M 345M 9% /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-386/volatile
/dev/.static/dev/hda1
                       96M 50M 42M 55% /boot
/dev/.static/dev/hda6
                       43G 40G 1.6G 97% /data
/dev/.static/dev/hda5
                       20G 16G 3.7G 81% /home

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Tom Haddon (mthaddon) wrote :

cat /proc/mounts

rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/83f25fbd-0615-4edc-9e95-f3c865bef1c5 / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/83f25fbd-0615-4edc-9e95-f3c865bef1c5 /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-386/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
usbfs /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs usbfs rw 0 0
udev /proc/bus/usb tmpfs rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb/.usbfs usbfs rw 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/.static/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/.static/dev/hda6 /data ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/.static/dev/hda5 /home ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0

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Tom Haddon (mthaddon) wrote :

As discussed on IRC, it seems that this is simply a confusing message - the upgrader does actually need 908MB free, plus about 1.6 GB for .deb packages. See screenshot for exact message.

Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

I just uploaded a new 0.71 that should fix this issue.

Changed in update-manager:
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: New → Fix Committed
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Fixed in 0.71 in Gutsy

Changed in update-manager:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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