Ticket #1341 (new enhancement)

Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

Consider postponing updates if / is full

Reported by: jdreed Owned by:
Priority: low Milestone: The Distant Future
Component: -- Keywords:
Cc: Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description

A debathena-workstation machine's / filled up during (or right before) an update, and now the machine is not usable. Perhaps auto-update should refuse to run if there is less than 200MB free on /.

Change History

comment:1 in reply to: ↑ description Changed 12 years ago by kaduk

Replying to jdreed:

A debathena-workstation machine's / filled up during (or right before) an update, and now the machine is not usable. Perhaps auto-update should refuse to run if there is less than 200MB free on /.

We should try to not break the machine, but on the other hand if the machine is not taking updates someone needs to be notified.
I don't think we have a reliable contact address for workstation machines, and the users who log in may not be maintainers. Continuing to take updates so the machine breaks will reliably get noticed, at least.

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed

I think this and #117 fits in with my grand plans for debathena-console 3.0. Basically, rather than pretending to be xconsole (which will be full of spew and is not useful for the average user) and rather than sending this and #117 to syslog (which the average user does not read), we should use debathena-console for errors _we_ generate. That is, dotfile progress can go there, as well as remote root logins. We could even have system daemon running that collects errors while the user isn't logged in and shows them to them later.

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