Subject: Re: mosaic problem
To: None <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Daniel Senderowicz <daniel@synchrods.synchrods.COM>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/17/2000 11:43:01
Here are the setups:
/etc/fstab:
/dev/rz0a / ffs rw 1 1
/dev/rz0b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/rz0d /usr ffs rw 1 2
/kern /kern kernfs rw
# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/rz0a 31469 24039 5856 80% /
/dev/rz0d 8282050 517320 7350627 6% /usr
kernfs 1 1 0 100% /kern
# df -k /var/tmp
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/rz0a 31469 24040 5855 80% /
> Is the one with the problem running on a partition with
> more than 2GB free?
>
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> David/absolute
>
>On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Daniel Senderowicz wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm struggling with a problem with mosaic. Here it goes:
>>
>> I have 1.4.1 (with the 1.4.2_ALPHA kernel) and 1.4.2_ALPHA in
>> two identical machines DECStation 5000/240 with the same disks
>> (9.1GB). The mosaic version already compiled is 2.7b5. I
>> installed it on these machines at different times, within a few
>> weeks of difference. The problem that I'm having is that the
>> one that I installed first (with 1.4.1) keeps giving me at the
>> bottom of the window a message saying:
>>
>> "Can't open temporary file -- Serious Problem".
>>
>> and
>>
>> "Insufficient temporary disk space; could not transfer data"
>>
>> Disk space is not really a problem in this machine, unless
>> mosaic is trying to write big stuff in the root partition where
>> I have 62k blocks. However I have the same in the machine that
>> is working OK. I couldn't find what could be different between
>> the two machines that makes this to happen. Nor I don't know
>> where is mosaic trying to write in order to check in that area.
>>
>> I will appreciate any pointers.
>>
>> Dan
>>
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