[rabbitmq-discuss] broken release?

Thu May 3 10:51:17 BST 2012

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 10:15:21AM +0100, Matthias Radestock wrote:
> On 03/05/12 09:45, Emile Joubert wrote:
> >On 03/05/12 08:48, Aryeh Leib Taurog wrote:
> >>We are evaluating RabbitMQ/pika for our stack.  I have it installed,
> >>via the rabbitmq debian/apt repository, on a ubuntu lucid test server.
> >>Yesterday morning, the apt package manager updated rabbitmq-server
> >>from 2.8.1-1 to 2.8.2-1.  At that point, it stopped working
> >>altogether.
> >
> >Could you tell us more about what is not working? Does the logfile
> >contain anything relevant?
> 
> I think I know what is happening based on the OP's report...
> 
> >> {disk_free_limit,3946872832},
> >> {disk_free,3124989952},
> 
> i.e. there is insufficient disk space and therefore publishing
> connections are probably being blocked.
> 
> The log file should contain alarms relating to that condition.

I would suggest in such a case an error should be returned to the 
publisher.

Where on the disk is the space required?  In what units are those 
numbers?  They don't seem to correspond to anything on my system. How 
much disk space do I need?  I had this problem with the first 
tutorial, so the message body is only 12 bytes.  Also, does this 
explain why v 2.8.1 works with no apparent problems?

Here's what df reports:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              4128448   1321368   2597368  34% /
none                   1922248       300   1921948   1% /dev
none                   1927184      1032   1926152   1% /dev/shm
none                   1927184       344   1926840   1% /var/run
none                   1927184         0   1927184   0% /var/lock
none                   1927184         0   1927184   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda7              4128448    185616   3733120   5% /tmp
/dev/sda1               253871    157338     83426  66% /boot
/dev/sda8             45694372  11201536  34028608  25% /home
/dev/sda5             16513960   6760840   9417576  42% /usr
/dev/sda6              4128448    867992   3050744  23% /var