freebsd stable - Aug 2003 - /usr: create/symlink failed, no inodes free

hi sirs,

i try to install galeon2 for my machine but get an error messages that i really
do not understand while making mozilla.

that errors appear at the very beginning of a make command.
i attache my uname, df both before and after make, and errors message with this
mail.

in wchich case that inodes are not sufficient ? and also how to get rid of this
kind of error.

thank you in advance for any hints and helps


-- 
with best regards,
psr

http://www.thai-aec.org
http://www.thai.net/makham
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Script started on Thu Aug 14 14:37:29 2003
You have mail.
firak /usr/ports/www/mozilla  # uname -a
FreeBSD firak.thai-aec.org 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #12: Tue Jul 22
14:17:51 ICT 2003     root@firak.thai-aec.org:/var/obj/var/src/sys/Firak  i386
firak /usr/ports/www/mozilla  # df
Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    403150   69326  301572    19%    /
/dev/ad0s1d   3881390 2991420  579460    84%    /home
/dev/ad0s1f    856782  520392  267848    66%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1h   1814318  706328  962846    42%    /usr/X11R6
/dev/ad0s1g   3024110 1270914 1511268    46%    /usr/local
/dev/ad0s1e   4201582 3053894  811562    79%    /var
procfs              4       4       0   100%    /proc
linprocfs           4       4       0   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
firak /usr/ports/www/mozilla  # make

Mozilla has the following tunable option(s):
	WITHOUT_XFT=yes		Disables Xft anti-aliasing support
	WITH_CALENDAR=yes	Enables the Calendar module (requires Mailnews and Composer
modules)
	WITHOUT_MAILNEWS=yes	Disables the Mail and News modules
	WITHOUT_COMPOSER=yes	Disables the HTML Composer module
	WITHOUT_LDAP=yes	Disables LDAP support within the Mailnews module
	WITHOUT_CHATZILLA=yes	Disable the Chatzilla IRC module
	WITH_JAVASCRIPT_DEBUGGER=yes		Enable the DTD and JavaScript debuggers
	WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes	Enable -O2 optimization

===>  Extracting for mozilla-1.4,2
>> Checksum OK for mozilla-source-1.4.tar.bz2.
>> Checksum OK for libart_lgpl.tar.bz2.
/usr: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
/usr/bin/tar: mozilla/themes/classic/communicator/search/result.gif: Cannot
open: No space left on device

/usr: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
/usr/bin/tar: mozilla/themes/classic/communicator/search/search-editor.css:
Cannot open: No space left on device

......

/usr: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
/usr/bin/tar: mozilla/l10n/makefiles.all: Cannot open: No such file or directory

/usr: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
/usr/bin/tar: mozilla/l10n/Makefile.in: Cannot open: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/mozilla.
firak /usr/ports/www/mozilla # df
Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    403150   69326  301572    19%    /
/dev/ad0s1d   3881390 2991420  579460    84%    /home
/dev/ad0s1f    856782  712128   76112    90%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1h   1814318  706328  962846    42%    /usr/X11R6
/dev/ad0s1g   3024110 1270914 1511268    46%    /usr/local
/dev/ad0s1e   4201582 3053894  811562    79%    /var
procfs              4       4       0   100%    /proc
linprocfs           4       4       0   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
firak /usr/ports/www/mozilla # exit
exit

Script done on Thu Aug 14 14:42:51 2003

Try a "df -i" and you'll see you are out of inodes.  Out of inodes
but still
with free space means you have too many small files on this filesystem.  That 
is very surprising as usually newfs massively over-supplies inodes.  Did you 
mess with newfs parameters when you did the install?  

The only solutions are move/delete some files or backup, newfs (with different
parameters) and restore the partition.

Greg.