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Apport reporting package installation failures when system is out of disk space

Bug #1831802 reported by Bryce Harrington
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Bug Description

In LP: #1831548, a package installation failure was automatically reported, but the problem was simply that the user was completely out of disk space (see the Df.txt attached to that bug report).

In this case, the user was installing on a system with below Ubuntu's minimum requirements, but in general bug reports about out of disk space conditions aren't actionable by us, and so probably don't need to be reported to launchpad.

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lp://staging/~bryce/apport/bug-1831802
Apport upstream developers: Pending requested
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Bryce Harrington (bryce)
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I believe the package installation failure report you are referencing actually came from apt and I'm surprised that apt actually created the crash report. As we can see in the following there is a check for ENOSPC when installing a package.

https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/blob/master/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc#L2257

Regardless having a second check for a lack of disk space seems fine.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

I've been keeping my eye out for a second report like this one, but have spotted none, and searching launchpad today shows nothing.

I'm willing to chalk this up to some spurious issue, and trust that apport normally catches such bugs and marks them with an UnreportableReason

Changed in apport:
status: New → Invalid
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