From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Occasionally, the kernel refuses to write anything to disc, with applications reporting "No space left on device" although there's plenty of space available. [root@localhost ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 9961408 5212352 4243044 56% / none 257928 0 257928 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda6 38449252 33156508 3339596 91% /opt [root@localhost ~]# df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/hda8 1265472 233035 1032437 19% / none 64482 1 64481 1% /dev/shm /dev/hda6 4889248 49666 4839582 2% /opt Writing to disc in /root: [root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=10 dd: writing `testfile': No space left on device 5+0 records in 4+0 records out GConfd errors in /var/log/messages: Oct 30 13:17:37 localhost gconfd (peter-3669): Failed to log removal of listener to logfile (most likely harmless, may result in a notification weirdly reappearing): Failed: Failed to log removal of listener to gconfd logfile; might erroneously re-add the listener if gconfd exits or shuts down (No space left on device) etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-1.643 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Wait until this state occurs. 2. Try writing something to disc. 3. Additional info: Might lead to data loss if user is unable to save his/her work to disc.
Created attachment 105972 [details] strace of dd command in comment #1
Still present in 2.6.9-1.649
Still present in FC3 release (2.6.9-1.667) This is on a Rawhide system though, will try a clean install and see if the problem persists.
Problem fixed by running fsck, got a tip in #fedora-devel :-)