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Can't pour large bottles on Fedora Linux #19037

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averms opened this issue Jan 5, 2025 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #19038
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Can't pour large bottles on Fedora Linux #19037

averms opened this issue Jan 5, 2025 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #19038
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averms commented Jan 5, 2025

brew doctor output

Your system is ready to brew.

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  • My "brew doctor output" above says Your system is ready to brew. and am still able to reproduce my issue.
  • I ran brew update twice and am still able to reproduce my issue.
  • This issue's title and/or description do not reference a single formula e.g. brew install wget. If they do, open an issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new/choose instead.

brew config output

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.4.14
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: f84082963da8af8c9ccd6dffbe932eba457e2b78
Last commit: 6 days ago
Branch: stable
Core tap JSON: 05 Jan 03:19 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_DISPLAY: :0
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 2
Homebrew Ruby: 3.3.6 => /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.3.6/bin/ruby
CPU: dual-core 64-bit zen4
Clang: 19.1.6
Git: 2.47.1 => /bin/git
Curl: 8.9.1 => /bin/curl
Kernel: Linux 6.12.7-200.fc41.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
OS: Fedora release 41 (Forty One)
Host glibc: 2.40
/usr/bin/gcc: 14.2.1
/usr/bin/ruby: N/A
glibc: N/A
gcc@11: 11.5.0
gcc: N/A
xorg: N/A

What were you trying to do (and why)?

Install llvm.

What happened (include all command output)?

I ran brew install llvm. The output is in install_llvm.log.

What did you expect to happen?

No errors and llvm successfully installed.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew commands)

1. Install Fedora 41 Workstation in a VM with 4 GiB of RAM
2. Install Homebrew
3. `brew install llvm`

This happens because the default temporary directory `/tmp` on Fedora, RHEL, and possibly other distros is tmpfs. It's stored in RAM and has strict limits on the number of inodes and size.
@averms averms added the bug Reproducible Homebrew/brew bug label Jan 5, 2025
averms added a commit to averms-forks/brew that referenced this issue Jan 5, 2025
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Change default temp on Linux to /var/tmp.
b77b809 
Previously, the default temporary directory was /tmp on Linux and
/private/tmp on macOS. On many Linux distros, including at least Fedora,
/tmp is stored in RAM. This diverges from the behavior on macOS and has
led to bugs, most notably the inability to install large bottles on
memory-limited machines.

This fixes Homebrew#19037.
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gromgit commented Jan 5, 2025

Suggest you export HOMEBREW_TEMP=/var/tmp instead.

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averms commented Jan 5, 2025

What if that was the default?

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.

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Leaving this open to consider changing default in a major/minor release.

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