[SOLVED] Script fails with LVM

[omahn]

I just discovered ubuntuzilla after speaking to some colleagues who highly recommended the script for installing newer versions Firefox and Thunderbird. Unfortunately it fails to complete on my systems.

I think the issue lies with my use of LVM and the output of df -k. Here's the error:

Backing up old Firefox preferences

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 1032, in <module>
bs.start()
File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 219, in start
fi.start()
File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 246, in start
self.install()
File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 503, in install
self.backupProfile()
File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 639, in backupProfile
self.checkDiskSpaceForBackup("~/.mozilla")
File "/usr/local/bin/ubuntuzilla.py", line 359, in checkDiskSpaceForBackup
availableForBackup = int(self.util.getSystemOutput(executionstring="df -k "+target+" | grep '/dev' |awk '{print $4}'"))


I'm using LVM on my systems and I can see that df -k returns a two line entry, see below:

pre500@jumpjet:~$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/sdaVG-root
206424760 85494788 118836084 42% /
varrun 1037472 156 1037316 1% /var/run
varlock 1037472 0 1037472 0% /var/lock
procbususb 1037472 84 1037388 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev 1037472 84 1037388 1% /dev
devshm 1037472 0 1037472 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 124427 50737 73690 41% /boot

Could this be the issue? I suspect the blank line is causing some issue here:

pre500@jumpjet:~$ df -k | grep '/dev' |awk '{print $4}'

1037388
1037472
73690

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[nanotube]

hi
that was some good troubleshooting it may be indeed what's causing the problem.
is your ~/.mozilla folder located in /dev/mapper/sdaVG-root ?
what's your output of:
df -k ~/.mozilla | grep '/dev' |awk '{print $4}'
and
df -k ~/.mozilla

don't worry, i'll try to get this working for you :)

[omahn]

what's your output of:
df -k ~/.mozilla | grep '/dev' |awk '{print $4}'
and
df -k ~/.mozilla


pre500@jumpjet:~$ df -k ~/.mozilla | grep '/dev' |awk '{print $4}'

pre500@jumpjet:~$ df -k ~/.mozilla
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/sdaVG-root
206424760 85614588 118716284 42% /
pre500@jumpjet:~$

On my system this command gives the desired output..

pre500@jumpjet:~$ df -k ~/.mozilla | grep '[0-9]%' | awk '{print $3}'
118716284
pre500@jumpjet:~$

Unfortunately this would be non functional on systems that produce the df output on 1 line as the awk command would print one column too early as the device is included in column 0...


don't worry, i'll try to get this working for you :)

Good stuff. :-)

[omahn]

This appears to work for me... YMMV:

pre500@jumpjet:~$ df -k ~/.mozilla | grep '[0-9]%' | awk '{ NN = NF - 2; print $NN }'
118714832
pre500@jumpjet:~$

I believe it will work on non LVM systems too as it's reading from the last column backwards.

[nanotube]

This appears to work for me... YMMV:

pre500@jumpjet:~$ df -k ~/.mozilla | grep '[0-9]%' | awk '{ NN = NF - 2; print $NN }'
118714832
pre500@jumpjet:~$

I believe it will work on non LVM systems too as it's reading from the last column backwards.

hey
an ingenious solution! :) i will stick that into ubuntuzilla for the next release.

in the meantime, you can just edit that line in ubuntuzilla.py, to reflect the new approach you have devised, so that you can get it to install for you.

thanks! :)

[omahn]

hey
an ingenious solution! :) i will stick that into ubuntuzilla for the next release.
in the meantime, you can just edit that line in ubuntuzilla.py, to reflect the new approach you have devised, so that you can get it to install for you.
thanks! :)

Cool, works perfectly now!

[nanotube]

Cool, works perfectly now!

thanks for fixing the bug! :) i'll be sure to credit you in the cvs changelogs. :)