Space problem loading GCC 1

[wpdavids]

Can someone please help me with this thread. I need to load GCC compliler on my Sun Ultra 60 running running Solaris 8.
Listed below is the error I am getting when trying to load version gcc-2.95.3-sol8-sparc-local.

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# pkgadd -d gcc-2.95.3-sol8-sparc-local

The following packages are available:
1 SMCgcc gcc
(sparc) 2.95.3

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: 1

Processing package instance <SMCgcc> from </export/home/wpdavids/gcc-2.95.3-sol8-sparc-local>

gcc
(sparc) 2.95.3
cpio: Cannot write &quot;reloc/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3/cc1obj&quot;, errno 28, No space lef
t on device
cpio: Cannot write &quot;reloc/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3/cc1plus&quot;, errno 28, No space le
ft on device
cpio: Cannot write &quot;reloc/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3/chillrt0.o&quot;, errno 28, No space
left on device
cpio: Cannot write &quot;reloc/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3/collect2&quot;, errno 28, No space l
eft on device
cpio: Cannot write &quot;reloc/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3/cpp0&quot;, errno 28, No space left
on device
cpio: Cannot write &quot;reloc/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3/f771&quot;, errno 28, No space left
on device
cpio: Cannot write &quot;reloc/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3/gmon.o&quot;, errno 28, No space lef
t on device
cpio: Cannot write &quot;reloc/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3/include/g2c.h&quot;, errno 28, No sp
ace left on device
cpio: Cannot write &quot;reloc/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3/include/objc/hash.h&quot;, errno 28,
No space left on device
cpio: Cannot write &quot;pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
- process </usr/bin/cpio -icdumD -C 512> failed, exit code 36
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to unpack datastream

Installation of <SMCgcc> failed (internal error).
No changes were made to the system.
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I do not understand the problem of &quot;No space left on device&quot;. Below I have listed a &quot;df -k&quot; of the disk space on the server. /usr/ has 280 meg free to install GCC into its locations.

# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 97927 42755 45380 49% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 466291 136152 283510 33% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 39967 11858 24113 33% /var
swap 347096 0 347096 0% /var/run
swap 347104 8 347096 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 302683 44646 227769 17% /opt
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 7590885 315034 5%7199943 /export/home

Thanks,
wpdavids

 

[jamisar]

where did you get this pkg from ?
post the output of: id;pwd;uname -a;ls -l your-pkg;file your-pkg

using pkgtrans (see man pages) translate the pkg
from datastream to a file system format
now you have access to it, see for files called
request pkginfo pkgmap
and analize them, DO NOT MAKE CHANGES, there are
a PSTAMP and a CHECKSUM, if you change 1 char the pkg
will never install!
OR
if you make changes, delete the CHECKSUM
look for a line containing 2 digits at the end of a file
in install subdir
(i have no pkg on my sys, i can't remember the filename, my be pkgmap)
simply delete this line.
now you are free to make every changes.
look for BASEDIR or INSTALLDIR vars. correct them if necessary.
to install a fs-pkg: pkgadd -d dir-containing-the-pkg pkg-name
good look!
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when they don't ask you anymore, where they are come from, and they don't tell you anymore, where they go ... you'r getting older !

 

[Annihilannic]

wpdavids,

All of the filesystems on that system are very small; SMCgcc is 60MB or so in size, so it may use up to twice that during installation.

It would clean up any temporary files after a failed attempt to install, which is why it looks like you still have space. Annihilannic.

 

[wpdavids]

Thanks to everyone. You gave me many hints to solving the problem with loading GCC on my Solaris server. The problem was related to space available in /var/tmp file system. What I did was to mount /var/tmp over /opt/tmp . This made plenty of room for the GCC package to load.

 

[tubbycub]

How do you mount /var/tmp over /opt/tmp ?
I mean, what commands did you use?

 

[blainepruitt]

/var is filling up during the installation, as it also does during the load of patches. One of the few pitfalls of Solaris, but don't worry there is a way around this. Try this:

# cd /var
# ln -s /tmp tmp

If you have other questions please post or check the man page on ln. This allows you to utilize space in /tmp to help alleviate /var.

HTH,
-bp

 

[tubbycub]

Thanks Blaine, I managed to do it using the following commands:

#> cd /tmp (or where you put the program file)
#> gunzip program-1.00-local.gz
#> mkdir /tmp/spool (this can be any directory in a place with a lot of disk space)
#> pkgadd -s /tmp/spool -d program-1.00-local
#> cd /tmp/spool
#> pkgadd -d .

I tried your suggestion and it worked too!

Courtesy of

http://smc.vnet.net/faq.html#q14