| Date: | 2009-02-02 00:27 |
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| Author: | Stefano |
| category: | Operating Systems |
| slug: | random-strange-behavior-check-your-free-hd-space-first |
Yesterday I was adding a small feature to GenomeAtlas when suddenly something strange happened: in the php script, images are generated dynamically using the gd extension, and saved into a cache. For some reason, suddenly some images were corrupted. At first, I blamed the Apache installation or the php interpreter, because none of the modifications I was doing involved the image generation routines. I was due to something else, so I kept the problem outstanding and left. When I came back, the problem had magically disappeared, but after a while it started again. I checked the cache, and some images were empty. Kind of weird.
I committed part of the code I modified, and the subversion client warned me that the disk was full, and it was unable to commit. Suddenly everything made sense. This happened to me every now and then, and I always forget this golden rule: if something weird and unexplainable starts to happen on your installation, check the free hard disk space first!