upgrade failed...or not...

Hi,

I managed to create an working copy of the initial SD-card image
on a 16GB SD card.

This card boots fine.

As adviced I did a

    opkg update
    opkg upgrade

. Unfortunately there were many lines containing "no space left on
device" and "wget .... short write" messages.

The both lines, which are often repeated in the logs are:

    ...
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-emc2103.
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-ah6.
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-ah4.
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-ssu100.
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-esd-usb2.
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-usbled.
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-ad7192.
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-ad7746.
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-ltc4261.
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-saa7115.
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-rc-dntv-live-dvbt-pro.
    /usr/share/opkg/intercept/depmod: line 4: echo: write error: No space left on device
    Configuring kernel-module-videobuf2-memops.
    ...

and

    Upgrading kernel-module-tea5761 on root from 3.2.18-r12j+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01 to 3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01...
    Downloading http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.05/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/machine/beaglebone/kernel-module-tea5761_3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01_beaglebone.ipk.
    wget: short write
    Upgrading kernel-module-sch-hfsc on root from 3.2.18-r12j+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01 to 3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01...
    Downloading http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.05/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/machine/beaglebone/kernel-module-sch-hfsc_3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01_beaglebone.ipk.
    wget: short write
    Upgrading gst-plugins-base-videotestsrc on root from 0.10.36-r3 to 0.10.36-r6...
    Downloading http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.05/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base-videotestsrc_0.10.36-r6_armv7a.ipk.
    wget: short write
    Upgrading kernel-module-mt2266 on root from 3.2.18-r12j+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01 to 3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01...
    Downloading http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.05/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/machine/beaglebone/kernel-module-mt2266_3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01_beaglebone.ipk.
    wget: short write
    Upgrading kernel-module-xfs on root from 3.2.18-r12j+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01 to 3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01...
    Downloading http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.05/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/machine/beaglebone/kernel-module-xfs_3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01_beaglebone.ipk.
    wget: short write
    Upgrading kernel-module-ppp-deflate on root from 3.2.18-r12j+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01 to 3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01...
    Downloading http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.05/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/machine/beaglebone/kernel-module-ppp-deflate_3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01_beaglebone.ipk.
    wget: short write
    Upgrading kernel-module-tea5767 on root from 3.2.18-r12j+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01 to 3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01...
    Downloading http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.05/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/machine/beaglebone/kernel-module-tea5767_3.2.25-r15a+gitr720e07b4c1f687b61b147b31c698cb6816d72f01_beaglebone.ipk.
    wget: short write

.

This also happened before with the 4GB image (which I reinitialized
with dd of the backupped original image in beforehand of the upgrade
procedure of the 16GB SD card).

Is it really true that I need more than a 16GB SD card to upgrade an
image which is delivered on a 4GB card?

What does all the errors mean?

Thank you very much in advance for any help!
Best regards,
mcc

PS: Log file is available and can be mailed too, if wanted.

try

opkg --tmp-dir ~ update

opkg --tmp-dir ~ upgrade

Jan

Hi Jan,

thank you for the info! :slight_smile:

the problem now seems to be, that opkg thinks everything is fine,
sinc the upgrade command does not find anything to upgrade anymore.

Is there a way to veryfy an installation/upgrade-process afterwards, so
that corrupted packages are identified?

Thank you very much for any help in advance!

Best regards.
mcc

Jan Szymanski <jan.szymanski@uts.edu.au> [12-08-16 05:05]: