Cannot install xorg on dfly-x86_64-4.0.1_REL

[Aero 9000]

/var is too small according to pkg.

Virtual machines are a great thing. Ideal for experimenting and learning. I
have erased the whole thing and tried a new setup, this time with a 2G /var.
At the very first time I had gone with the defaults of the installer, but
that created only a 256M /var. I had subsequently set up the system for a
second time with a 1G /var, but apparently that still wasn't enough. Now
with a 2G /var it pkg has all the working space it needs to download
packages and set up xorg and KDE.

Quite odd, the 109M gap between the results of du -sh . (in /var) and du
-h, disappeared after a reboot. I can't recall ever having had something
like this in Linux, so in DragonFlyBSD I hadn't expected this behaviour at
all. Like a dejavu of Windows -- to make it work, reboot.

I think we can close this thread now.

Best regards and thanks to all who pitched in.


On 30 December 2014 at 18:25, Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com> wrote:

> I think pkg might need temporary space either in /tmp or in /var
> somewhere.  Perhaps the problem is that /tmp is only 228M.  Normally we
> make /tmp a tmpfs filesystem (that is, swap-backed and doesn't survive a
> reboot).  It's also possible that the root filesystem is too small.  I'm
> just not sure where pkg wants to put its temporary files.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Aero 9000 <mbg11665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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