Cannot install FFP-0.7 or Alt-F packages

[boxbox]

When I try to install the FFP-0.7 package I get the following error.

Installing FFP-0.7

Downloading...

--2013-06-12 02:19:21--  http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0.7/oabi/fun_plug.tgz
Resolving www.inreto.de... 109.75.188.159
Connecting to www.inreto.de|109.75.188.159|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 53660050 (51M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: '/tmp/fun_plug.tgz'

     0K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........  5% 1.96M 25s
  3072K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 11% 2.39M 21s
  6144K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 17% 2.34M 19s
  9216K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 23% 2.42M 17s
 12288K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 29% 2.40M 16s
 15360K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 35% 2.47M 14s
 18432K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 41% 2.38M 13s
 21504K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 46% 2.29M 12s
 24576K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 52% 2.48M 10s
 27648K ........ .......                                      54% 2.14M=12s


Cannot write to '/tmp/fun_plug.tgz' (No space left on device).

Download failed.

And when I try to install the Alt-F packages, I get the following error:

Installing Alt-F in /mnt/drive
Installing ipkg
Trying dl.dropbox.com... fail, no Packages file.
Trying dl.dropbox.com... fail, no Packages file.
You don't seem to have a name server configured, or a working internet connection, and no /tmp/ipkg_*_arm.ipk file found. Exiting

The second error complains about not having a working internet connection, but when I SSH to the machine and do 'ping google.com' it seems to work. I'm not sure what the problem is. How do I install both of these things on the DNS-323? Thanks.

[João Cardoso]

On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 1:25:44 AM UTC+1, boxbox wrote:

When I try to install the FFP-0.7 package I get the following error.

Installing FFP-0.7

Downloading...

--2013-06-12 02:19:21--  http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0.7/oabi/fun_plug.tgz
Resolving www.inreto.de... 109.75.188.159
Connecting to www.inreto.de|109.75.188.159|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 53660050 (51M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: '/tmp/fun_plug.tgz'

     0K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........  5% 1.96M 25s
  3072K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 11% 2.39M 21s
  6144K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 17% 2.34M 19s
  9216K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 23% 2.42M 17s
 12288K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 29% 2.40M 16s
 15360K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 35% 2.47M 14s
 18432K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 41% 2.38M 13s
 21504K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 46% 2.29M 12s
 24576K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 52% 2.48M 10s
 27648K ........ .......                                      54% 2.14M=12s


Cannot write to '/tmp/fun_plug.tgz' (No space left on device).

Do you have swap active? You need it.

Check it in the Status Page, System section 

[Joao Cardoso]

On 06/12/2013 08:57 AM, boxbox wrote:

Thanks, I have now added a 4 GB USB drive (currently formatted as vfat) to the USB drive of the device, and enabled the "Swapping on USB devices:" option in Disk > Utilities, but Swap on the status page still shows as None. How can I enable it on a USB device?

Alt-F supports vfat and NTFS as a convenience for users that have external pen/drives with those filesystems.
Those filesystems should be used exclusively for user data, as they lack some features needed to linux.

So, you can't install Alt-F packages on a vfat or NTFS filesystems. You can only put your music or movies there.

As for swap, it has to be a partition of type "swap", it will be only used for swapping, i.e., work as if it was memory, and will not be able to handle user files.
Creating a partition of type swap means, for non-experts, repartitioning your disk and loosing your data.

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[Joel]

On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:55:53 PM UTC-7, João Cardoso wrote:

Do you have swap active? You need it.

Check it in the Status Page, System section 

Replying to an old topic, because I get the same no space left on /tmp error when trying to install ffp 0.7

Note: Alt-f packages installed fine.

It is not clear to me how to check whether the swap is active. Here is what I have investigated so far...

From Web admin

Status / Mounted Filesystems: sda2 and sda4 as ext2

Disk / Filesystems: sda2 and sda4 as ext2

Disk / Partitioner: sda1 as swap = 0.543 GB

From ssh

top does not show swap as far as I can tell

fstab does seem to have the correct entry:

/dev/sda1 none swap pri=1 0 0

And proc/swaps seems like it is in use:

# cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda1                               partition 530108 4552 1

Some background: I have been using ffp 0.5 for years. Today I installed Alt-f RC3 (renamed ffp and fun_plug, then flashed firmware). During the setup wizard, the HDD failed the check and mounted RO. I did the forced fix and then proceeded through the remaining wizard steps manually, and chose the "Do nothing to my drives" option.

[João Cardoso]

On Saturday, November 23, 2013 5:36:04 AM UTC, Joel wrote:

On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:55:53 PM UTC-7, João Cardoso wrote:

Do you have swap active? You need it.

Check it in the Status Page, System section 

Replying to an old topic, because I get the same no space left on /tmp error when trying to install ffp 0.7

Note: Alt-f packages installed fine.

It is not clear to me how to check whether the swap is active.

 Check it in the Status Page, top right, "Swap: used/total MB", or "Swap: none"

From the info that you supply below, swap is active on your system.

What is the issue?

To install ffp-0.7 a 51MB file has to be downloaded into /tmp, which does not reside on disk and uses 10% of the available swap space.

You seem to have only one disk, with one ~500MB active swap partition, thus /tmp has roughly 50MB, barely enough to download the file.

You can confirm this using the 'df -h /tmp' command.

To temporary fix the issue(*), use the command

mount -o remount,size=96M /tmp

now 'df -h /tmp' should report 96MB total and you should be able to install ffp-0.7. Be sure that the 'df' command reports enough Available space before doing it.

You might find an "Incorrect ffp version" message during the install, search the forum for a fix.

(*) at the next reboot, /tmp will again be 50MB, but that is not a problem, as the greater space is only needed once for the downloaded file.

I have fixed that on my sources, increasing /tmp from 10% of swap to 15%, so users with only one disk will not have issues.

[Joel]

On Saturday, November 23, 2013 9:12:42 AM UTC-8, João Cardoso wrote:

To temporary fix the issue(*), use the command

mount -o remount,size=96M /tmp

now 'df -h /tmp' should report 96MB total and you should be able to install ffp-0.7. Be sure that the 'df' command reports enough Available space before doing it.

You might find an "Incorrect ffp version" message during the install, search the forum for a fix.

 

Yes, that worked, thank you. Indeed, I kept my second drive out of the NAS for the upgrade as a backup to ensure that I did not lose anything.

I did not get an "Incorrect ffp version" message, I'm assuming that is because I renamed the ffp folders before installing Alt-F?

Thanks again.