Error during the installation of GNU Icecat

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Davide Valenti

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May you help me to solve a problem?
I've installed Trisquel mini 7.0 dedicating all the space of my hard drive to it however when i try to install GNU Icecat i receive those error:

davide89v@davide89v-Extensa-5620:~$ sudo apt-get install icecat
[sudo] password for davide89v:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for davide89v:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
ttf-lyx
The following NEW packages will be installed:
icecat
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 375 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/42,9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 103 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 174374 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../icecat_38.4.0-gnu1+7.0trisquel1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking icecat (38.4.0-gnu1+7.0trisquel1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/icecat_38.4.0-gnu1+7.0trisquel1_i386.deb (--unpack):
cannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/icecat/libxul.so' to '/usr/lib/icecat/libxul.so.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/icecat_38.4.0-gnu1+7.0trisquel1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
davide89v@davide89v-Extensa-5620:~$

Magic Banana

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What is the output of 'df -h'?

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davide89v@davide89v-Extensa-5620:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 14G 14G 0 100% /
none 4,0K 0 4,0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 2,0G 4,0K 2,0G 1% /dev
tmpfs 404M 1,1M 403M 1% /run
none 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock
none 2,0G 284K 2,0G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 8,0K 100M 1% /run/user
overflow 1,0M 4,0K 1020K 1% /tmp
/dev/sda6 213G 1,3G 212G 1% /home
davide89v@davide89v-Extensa-5620:~$

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Looks like the root partition (the very first line) is full. Run sudo apt-get clean for starters, that will remove the APT cache. (downloaded packages)

Besides that you probably have quite a few kernels, you only need 1. They're 150 megs a pop. They're named linux-image-version number.

If this is a fresh install you might consider reinstalling with a larger root...

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I've done a fresh installation without using the automatic way but choosing
the dimensions of the swap, / and /home partitions myself and now the system
is faster but not enough for such a laptop especially using LXDE, so maybe I
could have an Intel wifi card...

lembas
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Looks like the root partition (the very first line) is full. Run sudo apt-get
clean for starters, that will remove the APT cache. (downloaded packages)

Besides that you probably have quite a few kernels, you only need 1. They're
150 megs a pop. They're named linux-image-version number.

Davide Valenti

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I've not choosen the dimension of the different partitions, i've used the automatic installation, i've done anything, why the root partition is so tiny?

lembas
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This is a good question. I believe the reason might be hard disk sizes have grown rapidly and the installer defaults have not followed yet.

lembas
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This is a good question. I believe the reason might be hard disk sizes have
grown rapidly and the installer defaults have not followed yet.

Davide Valenti

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I also find the entire distro particurarly slow even with LXDE and I'am using an Acer Extensa 5620G, maybe the reason could be the same?

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Look if your hard drive isn’t failing.
To diagnostic your hard driver install "smarmontools" and "gsmartcontrol" then do a extended self test and finally post the SMART report.
I've looked at the specs of the laptop and you could install trisquel normally you normally don't have to use trisquel mini.

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In the current case, 'df' shows that the root partition is full and lembas' instructions should be followed. That said, it does not hurt to check the HDD's health status! But there is no reason to believe the disk is failing.

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Sorry didn't read that correctly.
I have a really bad experience with hard drives that why instead of saying (have you tried turning it off and on again) I often say did you look that hard drives health status.
(There is no reason that the hdd is failing) well for what I know the hard drives shipped in laptops (and pre build pc case) are not 100% quality fresh materiel so a hard drives who have already a more than 5 years (depending on how it was handled, generally there badly handled) of life, I don't trust it except for stock pile of downloaded videos.

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Sorry didn't read that correctly.
I have a really bad experience with hard drives that why instead of saying
(have you tried turning it off and on again) I often say did you look that
hard drives health status.
(There is no reason that the hdd is failing) well in most of what I know the
hard drives shipped in laptops (and pre build pc case) are not 100% quality
fresh materiel so a hard drives who have already a more than 5 years
(depending on how it was handled, generally there badly handled) of life, I
don't trust it except for stock pile of downloaded videos.

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In the current case, 'df' shows that the root partition is full and lembas'
instructions should be followed. That said, it does not hurt to check the
HDD's health status! But there is no reason to believe the disk is failing.

lembas
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Do you have an intel wifi card in the box? Those are known to cause such trouble. https://trisquel.info/en/issues/15897

You can use the following command to find outlspci

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Look if your hard drive isn’t failing.
To diagnostic your hard driver install "smarmontools" and "gsmartcontrol"
then do a extended self test and finally post the SMART report.
I've looked at the specs of the laptop and you could install trisquel
normally you normally don't have to use trisquel mini.

lembas
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Do you have an intel wifi card in the box? Those are known to cause trouble.
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/15897

You can use the following command to find outlspci

Davide Valenti

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I've done a fresh installation without using the automatic way but choosing the dimensions of the swap, / and /home partitions myself and now the system is faster but not enough for such a laptop especially using LXDE, so maybe I could have an Intel wifi card...

Davide Valenti

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I've typed lspci and i've found out that wifi card...

04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

Magic Banana

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No Intel Wifi chipset has a free firmware. One sure way to get Wifi with Linux-libre (hence Trisquel) is to buy a card/dongle at either http://libre.thinkpenguin.com or http://tehnoetic.com

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No Intel Wifi chipset has a free firmware. One sure way to get Wifi with
Linux-libre (hence Trisquel) is to buy a card/dongle at either
http://libre.thinkpenguin.com or http://tehnoetic.com

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Yes you are right! It's the wifi card!!! I've typed Ctrl + Alt + F1 and the screen prints an infinite list of "could not load free firmware"!!!

davide@valentisrl.eu
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May you help me to solve a problem?
I've installed Trisquel mini 7.0 dedicating all the space of my hard drive to
it however when i try to install GNU Icecat i receive those error:

davide89v@davide89v-Extensa-5620:~$ sudo apt-get install icecat
[sudo] password for davide89v:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for davide89v:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
ttf-lyx
The following NEW packages will be installed:
icecat
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 375 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/42,9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 103 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 174374 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../icecat_38.4.0-gnu1+7.0trisquel1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking icecat (38.4.0-gnu1+7.0trisquel1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/icecat_38.4.0-gnu1+7.0trisquel1_i386.deb (--unpack):
cannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/icecat/libxul.so' to
'/usr/lib/icecat/libxul.so.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on
device)
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/icecat_38.4.0-gnu1+7.0trisquel1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
davide89v@davide89v-Extensa-5620:~$

Davide Valenti

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I don't need wifi at the moment, however thank you for the information, sure it will be very useful to me in the future :D

But how can I disable this loop that is slowing my laptop?

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I would first try to use a later version of the kernel: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel

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One sure fire way is to yank out that useless card.

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I would first try to use a later version of the kernel:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel

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One sure fire way is to yank out that useless card.

Davide Valenti

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I've launched the software updater from the preferences and maybe it has updated the kernel, because now the execution of the system is fluid!!!

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However just for take the bull by the horns I've installed gsmartcontrol and performed an extended self test, you can read the attached file (i haven't the competence) but the program has said that the hard drive is in health :)

I haven't been able to install smarmontools, typing sudo apt-get install smarmontools gives me no entry of this package, I would like to try even that one just for learning, could you help me even in this? :D

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The correct package name is smartmontools but it's a dependency of gsmartcontrol so you already have it installed.

For more info, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

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The correct package name is smartmontools but it's a dependency of
gsmartcontrol so you already have it installed.

For more info, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

Davide Valenti

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Thank you

Magic Banana

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What is the output of 'df -h'?

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davide89v@davide89v-Extensa-5620:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 14G 14G 0 100% /
none 4,0K 0 4,0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 2,0G 4,0K 2,0G 1% /dev
tmpfs 404M 1,1M 403M 1% /run
none 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock
none 2,0G 284K 2,0G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 8,0K 100M 1% /run/user
overflow 1,0M 4,0K 1020K 1% /tmp
/dev/sda6 213G 1,3G 212G 1% /home
davide89v@davide89v-Extensa-5620:~$

davide@valentisrl.eu
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I've not choosen the dimension of the different partitions, i've used the
automatic installation, i've done anything, why the root partition is so
tiny?

davide@valentisrl.eu
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I also find the entire distro particurarly slow even with LXDE and I'am using
an Acer Extensa 5620G, maybe the reason could be the same?

davide@valentisrl.eu
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Joined: 02/07/2016

I've done a fresh installation without using the automatic way but choosing
the dimensions of the swap, / and /home partitions myself and now the system
is faster but not enough for such a laptop especially using LXDE, so maybe I
could have an Intel wifi card...

davide@valentisrl.eu
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Joined: 02/07/2016

I've typed lspci and i've found out that wifi card...

04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan]
Network Connection (rev 02)

davide@valentisrl.eu
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Yes you are right! It's the wifi card!!! I've typed Ctrl + Alt + F1 and the
screen prints an infinite list of "could not load free firmware"!!!

davide@valentisrl.eu
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I don't need wifi at the moment, however how can I disable this loop that is
slowing my laptop?

davide@valentisrl.eu
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Joined: 02/07/2016

I've launched the software updater from the preferences and maybe it has
updated the kernel, because now the execution of the system is fluid!!!

davide@valentisrl.eu
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Joined: 02/07/2016

However just for take the bull by the horns I've installed gsmartcontrol and
performed an extended self test, you can read the attached file (i haven't
the competence) but the program has said that the hard drive is in health :)

I haven't been able to install smarmontools, typing sudo apt-get install
smarmontools gives me no entry of this package, I would like to try even that
one just for learning, could you help me even in this? :D

davide@valentisrl.eu
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Thank you