[SOLVED]/tmp fills up when building packages

Question

When I try to install Red Eclipse with:
yaourt redeclipse
I get a BUNCH of write failed errors then:
redeclipse/bin/reserver_freebsd_64: Write failed
redeclipse/bin/reclient_freebsd_32: Write failed
redeclipse/bin/reserver_linux_32: Write failed
redeclipse/bin/reclient_freebsd_64: Write failed
redeclipse/bin/reserver_linux_64: Write failed
redeclipse/bin/reclient_linux_32: Write failed
redeclipse/readme.txt: Write failed
redeclipse/redeclipse.sh: Write failed
redeclipse/server.sh: Write failed
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
==> ERROR: Failed to extract redeclipse_1.1_linux_bsd.tar.bz2
Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build redeclipse.
==> Restart building redeclipse ? [y/N]
==> -----------------------------------
==>
sort: fflush failed: standard output: No space left on device
sort: write error
sort: write failed: standard output: No space left on device
sort: write error
==> WARNING: Following packages have not been installed:
redeclipse
┌─[11:22 PM]─[eric]─[~]
└─[$]─>
df -h
┌─[11:22 PM]─[eric]─[~]
└─[$]─> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 228G 2.6G 214G 2% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
/run 10M 256K 9.8M 3% /run
/dev/sda3 228G 2.6G 214G 2% /
shm 497M 132K 497M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 497M 497M 0 100% /tmp
/dev/sda2 92M 24M 63M 28% /boot
┌─[11:23 PM]─[eric]─[~]
└─[$]─>
says that /tmp is full.  I'm guessing I need to increase the size of the /tmp tmpfs.  How would I do this?
EDIT: after I try to install if I try to gksudo thunar I get an error "unable to copy xauthorization file" unless I delete all the files in /tmp and reboot
Last edited by TheCash (2011-12-27 07:02:48)

Answer 1

You can tell yaourt to build somewhere else, use --tmp commandline switch or edit /etc/yaourtrc, uncomment and change
#TMPDIR="/tmp"
to somewhere else.