jks

Yes, this problem can occur anytime in the future a Kiwi first crosses the barrier between pre- and post-v1.8xx. That's the point at which the git repo rebase occurs. So going from v1.699 to v1.8xx qualifies (even if v1.800 itself is skipped).

In your case it sounds like you have a Kiwi at a remote site with automatic updates turned off so you can more carefully control the update schedule (an entirely reasonable thing to do). It would be better if you just let me manually do the update to v1.800 now and save you any potential problems when you're next out there. Just set a temporary admin password and email it to support@kiwisdr.com and I'll be happy to do that.

Okay, these 5 have been fixed. Others are in the queue.

Anyone else, assuming your Kiwi has Internet access, email the link/URL and admin password to support@kiwisdr.com. It can take a couple hours to fix the build depending on various factors.

Some people have asked if they can try fixing this themselves. If you have ssh access to your Kiwi (NB: different from Kiwi admin access) you can try fixing it. Don't ask about the browser procedure to restore admin page access. It's complicated and I don't have time to walk people through it.

Follow the instructions given in the first post of this thread.

Today we're going to try rebasing all Kiwis (except those running Debian 8) to v1.800.

Please be patient. This is a long update as the file cache has to complete a one-time load which takes extra time if your Internet connection to kiwisdr.com happens to be slow.

Debian 8 Kiwis will update to v1.710 which has no other changes except the version number change.

If your non-Debian 8 Kiwi ends up running v1.710 that means the transition to v1.800 failed and I need to look at it.

Starting with v1.801 we can resume with binary updates and get rid of these ridiculous update times.

v1.800 removes the /root/Beagle_SDR_GPS git clone subdirectory which had grown to anywhere between 500 and 1600 MB and replaces it with a new clone called KiwiSDR (current size 55 MB).

And also a new directory /root/KiwiSDR.files updated from kiwisdr.com (i.e. not part of the Github clone) containing large static files (current size 88 MB).

As a result the new KiwiSDR clone should grow much more slowly over time as it will mostly contain only source code changes and not historical copies of these huge binary files. So things now look roughly like this and there is now plenty of free filesystem space: