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01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8649 Location: qld

Thanks Henry,

Well your save may be taking all the space on the drive but it's not the pupmode 6 (7 was wrong) I thought it was.

Looks like your RAM is full, so I need to improve the RAM test, but if your partition is full there may be another problem. Anyway, I can see why the older versions of get_libre work for you, they don't build in RAM.

Q. Do you have swap?

I'll post a fix soon.

Cheers

tlchost · Posted: Sun 17 Feb 2013, 16:44 Post subject: Memory Bug

version 25 and many earlier ones report a low memory condition on my desktop system which has 16 gigs of memory.

Recognizing an impossible statement when I see one, I tested version 25 on my laptop which has a paltry 4 gigs of memory. It works!

So, my non-technical, I am a simple end user observation is that the memory reporting/detection/error trapping is not functioning correctly.

Thom

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8649 Location: qld

Thom, can you post the out put of free please?

tlchost · Posted: Sun 17 Feb 2013, 17:39 Post subject:

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 865 Location: Oregon USA

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8649 Location: qld

There's a hole in my program dear Henry!

I fixed it with straw... [ Rolling Eyes

.. I'm terrible with humour!]

I rewrote the RAM check function and it should build in /mnt/home if your RAM is getting a bit full. All my machines have swap so it builds in RAM for me anyway and if RAM fills up swap comes into play.

Anyway, it *should* work, Thom, I'd be interested in your results too.

Here's my log, while it won't show much in the way of error messages it will help me pinpoint where there is a breakdown and give me useful info about your system for debugging. It's located at /tmp/LO_log_"today's date"

tlchost · Posted: Mon 18 Feb 2013, 17:27 Post subject:

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 865 Location: Oregon USA

Download complete. System working normally, seems unaffected except for the large files in /tmp, totalling about 524M instead of the usual 76M.

A popup says: "Sorry, constructing LibreOffice-4.0.0_en-US_xz.sfs has failed"

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8649 Location: qld

Thanks for the log Henry

Now, looks like everything is fine except the unpacking of the debs, which leads me to believe it might be a NOP specific problem. Have you ever had any problem installing a deb? The LO script uses the same code to unpack the debs as PPM uses to install them.

EDIT:

I just successfully built in NOP. So that dismisses a NOP bug. I don't *think* xz compression will make a difference to you, you have plenty of RAM. (You may want to get it tested) . I think I'm allowing plenty of room for the construction which is at 900M, IIRC it unpacks to ~500M plus the size of the debs ~160M (gz) then the sfs ~130M (xz) ~160M(gz) for a max of around 700M. I'll bump it to 1GB anyway and may offer a checkbox to build in /mnt/home (essentially having the checkbox checked will force "no" for the RAM test).

I'm on it.

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 865 Location: Oregon USA

Thanks for working with me on this. I think it's time to take a breather while I review about unpacking debs. Many years ago I recall doing that to download OpenOffice, but my memory is not what it used to be.

Could you suggest a simple test to check PreciseNop for this?

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8649 Location: qld

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 865 Location: Oregon USA

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8649 Location: qld

rameshiyer

Please provide cut down version of Libreoffice - only Writer preferably SFS file.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8649 Location: qld