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upgrade tool error - Overflow during disk space check #50

Closed paleoGeek closed 8 months ago

paleoGeek commented 2 years ago

I was upgrading from v20.3 to 21 using the Upgrade Tool, and during the upgrade simulation I got an error that Traceback says is in line 739 of /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintupgrade/checks.py, in check_disk_space requirements. It reports an OverflowError.:

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I have 527 GB of free space in the ext4 filesystem, so it is not an actual disk space problem. Line 739 says:

self.info.append(_("Download size: %s. Additional space needed: %s.") % (GLib.format_size(download_size), GLib.format_size(additional_space_needed)))

and if I change it to

self.info.append(_("Download size: %s. Additional space needed: .") % (GLib.format_size(download_size) ))

then it does not report the error and continues to a sucssesful upgrade to v21. So the error is in the GLib.format_size(additional_space_needed) call. Note that the Kept packages window includes a line that says "Download size: 2.3 GB. Additional space needed:." so that seems to be where the value is used. Maybe it is the wrong type?

If it matters, it happened when I was in the process of upgrading from v18 to v21 using the steps in [https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade.html]. This was the output of inxi -SDPxx before attempting the v20.3 to v21 upgrade:

System: Host: transit Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal Drives: Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 377.97 GiB (40.6%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA100 size: 931.51 GiB speed: serial: 66UWMS7NS Partition: ID-1: / size: 909.92 GiB used: 377.97 GiB (41.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 ID-2: swap-1 size: 6.95 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5

Logan5GreyE commented 1 year ago

I also get the same error. How did you change this?

paleoGeek commented 1 year ago

I also get the same error. How did you change this?

Once I removed the GLib.format_size(additional_space_needed) call in checks.py as described above, it completed without error.

aminalshmu commented 1 year ago

Thanks for this tip, I had issues with the upgrade (also from 20.3 to 21) and had to restart many times for other reasons and eventually started getting this error. To save time for anyone else with the issue, checks.py is in /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintupgrade

Kudos paleoGeek!