No space left on device - bug?

[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 8 August 2011 16:39, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am been noticing this odd error in my ubunut 11.04 64bit.
>>>
>>> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ cat file
>>> this is a file
>>> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ tail file
>>> this is a file
>>> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ tail -f file
>>> this is a file
>>> tail: cannot watch `file': No space left on device
>>
>> Could this be relevant?
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/700958  tail
>> -f gives misleading error message when inotify limit is reached
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> yep exact same issue
>
> # strace tail -f file
> ...
> inotify_init()                          = 4
> inotify_add_watch(4, "file",
> IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF) = -1 ENOSPC (No space
> left on device)
> open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 5
> ....
>
> looks like I am using coreutils 8.5
> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ apt-cache policy coreutils
> coreutils:
>  Installed: 8.5-1ubuntu6
>  Candidate: 8.5-1ubuntu6
>  Version table:
>  *** 8.5-1ubuntu6 0
>        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> So I upgraded to latest coreutils using ppa
> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hggdh2/ppa
> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ sudo apt-get update
> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ sudo apt-get install coreutils
> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ sudo apt-cache policy coreutils
> coreutils:
>  Installed: 8.12.65-5c5576~20110530~ppa1
>  Candidate: 8.12.65-5c5576~20110530~ppa1
>  Version table:
>  *** 8.12.65-5c5576~20110530~ppa1 0
>        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/hggdh2/ppa/ubuntu/ natty/main
> amd64 Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>     8.5-1ubuntu6 0
>        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
>
> Now I truly get the inotify message
> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ tail -f file
> this is a file
> tail: inotify resources exhausted
> tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling
>
> So why am I still getting this
> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
> 8192
>
> what is using inotify? how do I fix it?

I followed this
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15509/whos-consuming-my-inotify-resources
and found only 25 process is using inotify. far less than 8192


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>> Otherwise googling for
>> tail no space left on device
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>> Colin
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> Asif Iqbal
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> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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Asif Iqbal
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?