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Red_Fir

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Registered: 2023-10-01

Posts: 8  

Trouble in paradise

Soo Devuan 5 was cranking along okee dokee and I applied the system updates this morning,... after that I attempted to download  Prusa Slicer as an Appimage
it half downloaded and stalled out, I attempted again and it half downloaded and told me I was out of space,
Properties of the download folder tell me it's 4 Gb in size, and has 160 Gb capacity, and all 160 Gb are used up, ... but it will continue to half download every thing I try and then fail  out.
I have multiple partial downloads so its obviously not out of space because it continues to accrue half downloads.

I assume a bug came with the update?
Where to from here?

Ron

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Registered: 2018-04-22

Posts: 526  

Re: Trouble in paradise

I didn't get any updates this morning. How long has it been since you've updated? Can you go to history in synaptic and post what updates you installed today?

Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

Posts: 1,581  

Re: Trouble in paradise

Hello:

... bug came with the update?

Why would you think that?
I'm up to date, with no bugs.

~$ uname -a
Linux devuan 6.1.0-25-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.106-3 (2024-08-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux
~$ uname -a

~$ sudo apt update
--- snip ---
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
~$ 

Where to ...

While it is not quite clear where the problem may lie, you may want to consider trying the simplest approach first.
eg:

1. empty your Downloads folder, getting rid of all traces of any partly downloaded/unnecessary files, including those in the Trash folder.
2. use wget to download the file.

From the quick look I had, Prusa Slicer 2.8.1 appimages can be downloaded from GitHub but from what the page indicates, they are either 90.2Mb or 94.2Mb, depending on your choice. ie: not 4Gb

So that would be something like this:

~$ wget https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/releases/download/version_2.8.1/PrusaSlicer-2.8.1+linux-x64-newer-distros-GTK3-202409181416.AppImage

It worked perfectly well for me:

~$ wget https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/releases/download/version_2.8.1/PrusaSlicer-2.8.1+linux-x64-newer-distros-GTK3-202409181416.AppImage
--2024-09-21 16:38:44--  https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/releases/download/version_2.8.1/PrusaSlicer-2.8.1+linux-x64-newer-distros-GTK3-202409181416.AppImage
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 20.201.28.151
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|20.201.28.151|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
--- snip ---
Connecting to objects.githubusercontent.com (objects.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.108.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 98731200 (94M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: 'PrusaSlicer-2.8.1+linux-x64-newer-distros-GTK3-202409181416.AppImage'

PrusaSlicer-2.8.1+linux-x64-newer-dis 100%[========================================================================>]  94.16M  36.6MB/s    in 2.6s    

2024-09-21 16:38:48 (36.6 MB/s) - 'PrusaSlicer-2.8.1+linux-x64-newer-distros-GTK3-202409181416.AppImage' saved [98731200/98731200]

~$ 

Best,

A.

Last edited by Altoid (2024-09-21 19:53:36)

ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

Posts: 1,251  

Re: Trouble in paradise

Firstly, in a standard installation, the filesystem holds back 5% of space for root-only use. So your disk of 160G can only be filled to 152G by a non-root user. However wget doesn't know that so may well start downloading on the idea that there is some 8G++ space left, and then run into trouble when saving.

Secondly if only 4G of your 152G are in Downloads, you would do well in cleaning up elsewhere. Perhaps (as root) cleaning up in the /var/log and /var/cache trees would reclaim space.  Otherwise I would guess you need to tidy up the user's home area.

Use du or xdu to find where the disk usage is, and delete with care and forethought.

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,169  

Re: Trouble in paradise

Another thought: 4G is about the max a file can get on a fat32 partition?