F17 starting/stop service: "Error: No space left on device"

asked 2012-12-17 15:57:21 -0600

sudoyang
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updated 2013-09-13 21:30:35 -0600

FranciscoD_
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I've been seeing this many times. What space is it complaining about?

# systemctl stop postfix.service
Error: No space left on device
# systemctl start postfix.service
Error: No space left on device

Job failed. See system journal and 'systemctl status' for details.

# systemctl status postfix.service
postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent
      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; enabled)
      Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:52:06 -0800; 1min 45s ago
     Process: 10471 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/postfix stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
     Process: 10518 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/postfix start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
     Process: 10515 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/postfix/chroot-update (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
     Process: 10510 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/postfix/aliasesdb (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Main PID: 10212 (code=killed, signal=TERM)
      CGroup: name=systemd:/system/postfix.service

Dec 17 13:50:37 fong.homelinux.com postfix/postfix-script[10590]: starting the Postfix mail system
Dec 17 13:50:37 fonghome.homelinux.com postfix/master[10591]: daemon started -- version 2.9.4, configuration /...fi

# df -h
Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                     3.9G  8.0K  3.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs                        3.9G  2.6M  3.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                        3.9G  2.5M  3.9G   1% /run
/dev/mapper/vg_fong-lv_root   50G  7.6G   42G  16% /
tmpfs                        3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                        3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /media
/dev/sdc1                    111G   46G   59G  44% /ssd1
/dev/sda2                    485M   98M  362M  22% /boot
/dev/md127                   1.8T  1.3T  511G  71% /d

Works fine when starting postfix manually:

# postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system

I've seen this with a couple of services, not just postfix.

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This also could be inode space, check df -i

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answered 2013-09-12 20:58:00 -0600

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Looks like a closed-wontfix bug ... due to FC17 being EOL. Can we assume you're running a later version now and it's not failing anymore?

bugzilla.redhat.com bug number 894483

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answered 2016-07-28 05:31:34 -0600

This post is a wiki. Anyone with karma >750 is welcome to improve it.

By default, Linux only allocates 8192 watches for inotify, which is ridiculously low. And when it runs out, the error is also No space left on device, which may be confusing if you aren't explicitly looking for this issue.

Here we see evidence of a problem:

tail: inotify resources exhausted

Raise this value with the appropriate sysctl:

Add this to /etc/sysctl.conf fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 262144

and then run sysctl -p

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answered 2014-03-04 16:21:27 -0600

This post is a wiki. Anyone with karma >750 is welcome to improve it.

If you are runing crashplan see linux configuration: http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Troubleshooting/Real-Time_Backup_For_Network-Attached_Drives

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