Cannot install xorg on dfly-x86_64-4.0.1_REL

Aero 9000 mbg11665 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 28 00:12:23 PST 2014


df -h says,

Filesystem                           Size   Used  Avail Capacity   Mounted
on
/dev/serno/VB0faba5d1-2d0fde2d.s1a   744M   180M   504M    26%     /
devfs                                1.0K   1.0K     0B   100%     /dev
/dev/serno/VB0faba5d1-2d0fde2d.s1d   8.2G    11K   7.6G     0%     /home
/dev/serno/VB0faba5d1-2d0fde2d.s1e   248M   8.0K   228M     0%     /tmp
/dev/serno/VB0faba5d1-2d0fde2d.s1f   7.4G   1.2G   5.6G    18%     /usr
/dev/serno/VB0faba5d1-2d0fde2d.s1g   1.0G   157M   770M    17%     /var
procfs                               4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%     /proc

The odd thing is, that if I do du -sh . in /var, it says, 48M, meaning
there is 109M gap between what df says and what du says.

Kind regards.

On 27 December 2014 at 20:48, Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com> wrote:

> 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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