[Nix-dev] garbage collect deadlock

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

> My nix partition is full, so I thought I'd run a garbage collect:
>
> [visser at stratego release]$ nix-collect-garbage
> deleting `/nix/store/z87qf8hq7752iks9432l33wzr4x7yymn-user-environment'
> error: Db::put: No space left on device
> Aborted
>
> Any idea how to solve this? (without resorting to manually deleting
> files preferably)

That's this infamous bug: https://bugs.cs.uu.nl/browse/NIX-18

Workaround: try "rm /nix/var/log/nix/drvs/*" to free up some space, then
run the garbage collector.

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco