Bug 563484 - abrt uses unnecessary disk space when getting debug info
Summary: abrt uses unnecessary disk space when getting debug info
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: abrt
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jiri Moskovcak
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-02-10 11:50 UTC by Jonathan
Modified: 2015-02-01 22:51 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: abrt-1.0.7-1.fc12
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-02-23 05:40:00 UTC
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Description Jonathan 2010-02-10 11:50:42 UTC
Description of problem:
abrt uses unnecessary amount of disk space when getting debug info and goes far outside the quota. This makes it unusable for a system with limited extra disk space. Limited disk space is in this case 2 GB and does not feel unreasonable to expect it to work for this.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
abrt.x86_64                    1.0.6-1.fc12

How reproducible:
always when lot's of debug info is missing and disk space is limited (limited in this case is less than 2 GB)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. remove all debug info from abrt
2. have a bug that requires lot's of debug info to report
3. have limited disk space to work with for abrt
  
Actual results:
abrt downloads all missing debug info, then unpacks it, then writes the needed files to disk. This operation dies before finish unnecessarily when disk space runs out.

Expected results:
Suggestion: abrt could download one debug info file at a time, unpack it, write the needed files to it's cache and then release the working disk space. Then repeat for every missing debug info file. This would reduce the needed amount of working disk space if I have not misunderstood how the process works.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2010-02-11 16:46:24 UTC
>Suggestion: abrt could download one debug info file at a time, unpack it, write t he needed files to it's cache and then release the working disk space.

Committed a change to git to do exactly this.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-02-15 14:08:39 UTC
abrt-1.0.7-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-1.0.7-1.fc12

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-02-18 22:32:21 UTC
abrt-1.0.7-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update abrt'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1598

Comment 4 Jonathan 2010-02-19 13:01:24 UTC
abrt-1.0.7-1.fc12 tested and worked fine. The problem seems solved in this version. 

Thanks

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-02-23 05:38:24 UTC
abrt-1.0.7-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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