[Nix-dev] garbage collect deadlock

Eelco Dolstra eelco at cs.uu.nl
Thu Feb 16 14:41:05 CET 2006


>> 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

And since you were the second person to complain about it this week, I've
finally fixed it (r4821).

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