Cannot install xorg on dfly-x86_64-4.0.1_REL

Matthew Dillon dillon at backplane.com
Sat Dec 27 11:48:26 PST 2014


How much space does the filesystem have?  What's your 'df -h' output ?

-Matt

On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Aero 9000 <mbg11665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, this seems to become an uphill battle. First of all, thank you sephe,
> because your solution worked :-).
>
> New problem, pkg install kde says insufficient free space in
> /var/cache/pkg. So, du -sh -> var is 1G, 157M used. man pkg, pkg clean ->
> nothing to do. OK. cd /var/, du * -sh -> yep, 147 MB in /var/cache. So, cd
> cache, cd pkg, ll -> there's a whole bunch of files pertaining the
> installing of xorg in there. Well I don't need them, get rid of them (rm).
> pkg install kde -> no, insufficient space. cd /var, du * -sh -> only 40K in
> cache. df -h -> var is 1G, 157M used.
>
> Now I am at a loss. The disc is setup with the UDF file system, not HAMMER
> or ZFS or something fancy.
>
> Kind regards.
>
>
> On 27 December 2014 at 09:16, Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Aero 9000 <mbg11665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Folks,
>> >
>> > I'm not sure if this is the correct mailing list for me to post this
>> to, but
>> > if not just tell me and I'll be out of your hair. Anyways, I've known of
>> > DragonFly BSD for a couple of years now, just never got round to
>> install it
>> > until a few days ago. So I downloaded the greatest and latest version
>> and
>> > set up a virtual machine just to give this one a try. Installation went
>> > smooth. However, since I'm more of a GUI type person I also wanted to
>> set up
>> > xorg and then gnome (of XFCE or maybe even KDE). But I never got round
>> to
>> > deciding which desktop I want, because of an error during setting up
>> xorg.
>> >
>> > I typed, pkg install xorg
>> >
>> > That first caused pkg to update itself and then pkg started pulling in
>> > packages and installing them until an assertion failed. The message
>> reads,
>> >
>> > Fetching xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0.6.txz: 100%  9 KB   9.2k/s  00:01
>> >
>> > Checking integrity...assertion failed (pkgdb_ensure_loaded(j->db, p2,
>> > PKG_LOAD_FILES|PKG_LOAD_DIRS) == EPKG_OK), function
>> > pkg_conflicts_need_conflict, file pkg_jobs_conflicts.c, line 211.
>> >
>> > Child process pid=990 terminated abnormally: Abort trap
>> > # Dec 23 17:13:55  kernel: pid 990 (pkg), uid 0: exited on signal 6
>> (core
>> > dumped)
>>
>> Temp solution/fixup suggested by bapt:
>> pkg fetch -u
>> pkg upgrade
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> sephe
>>
>
>
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