Ubuntu 14.04's Debmirror broken?

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 13 May 2018 10:29:47 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> hi,
> Am Samstag, den 12.05.2018, 13:44 -0400 schrieb Robert Heller:
> > Archive-Update-in-Progress-ub140464.wendellfreelibrary.org exists or
> > you lack proper permissions; aborting at /usr/bin/debmirror line 867.
> 
> with such a message my first look would go towards a former run of the
> tool hanging or having died in a way that didnt clean up the lockfile

The lockfile was cleaned up -- I have a cronjob to take care of that.

> ...
> 
> next: is the diskspace sufficient, does the user running it have the
> correct permissions, if the mirror dir is a mountpoint, were there
> filesystem errors that caused it to go into readonly state ... 

OK, the disk is full.  :-(.

It would be nice if debmirror handled this and gave a useful error message...

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> 
> and last ... when did the debmirror package change last and could this
> be related: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debmirror (seemingly
> not)
> 
> ciao
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