231825 - http download of file larger than 80 megabytes gives message "disk full" (when it isn't) and stops

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Susan Crayne]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

When downloading a file > 80 megabytes from my company's intranet (hence no
url), download stopped with a "disk full" message.  I checked the disk's space
with df, and there was plenty of space on the disk for the whole file.  I was
able to work around this by downloading the file on a Windows system and ftp-ing
it to the Linux machine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download file > 80 megabytes using HTTP
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
"disk full" message when disk is not actually full

Expected Results:  
Allowed the download to progress to completion

Linux version is AS2.1.  Hardware is IBM XSeries 335.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

did you also have enough space in /tmp?

builds before 1.7alpha (yes, not available yet) store the entire file in /tmp
and only move it to the target directory once completed.

1.7alpha will move the file once you choose a target directory.

Comment 2

[WD]

Possibly related:
Bug 229984 or one of its blockers

Comment 3

[Susan Crayne]

Just to be sure, I linked /tmp to a directory on a device that contained plenty 
of space.  When I downloaded again, I received approx. twice as much data 
before I got the "disk full" message again.  After that, Mozilla hung.  

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

Reporter, is this still a problem with current releases? (1.7.2 or 1.8a2)
If not please resolve this bug if you agree.

Comment 5

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69938 ***

Comment 6

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

per:
>Just to be sure, I linked /tmp to a directory on a device that contained plenty 
>of space.

this is not a duplicate.

hm... Susan: is the TMP environment variable set? if so, does the directory it
points to have enough free space?

Comment 7

[OstGote!]

No further response since 1 year, old version. Marking WFM.

Feel free to reopen the bug if you can reproduce the problem with current builds.