get_iplayer hangs after 'Started writing to temp' (Jon Davies)

[alan]

> my attempts to reproduce this problem on 10.04 resulted in ap getting
> to 100% cleanly.  what I'm left scratching my head about is what's
> different between the "minimal ubuntu 10.04" virtual server that
> alan's using, and the not-so-minimal desktop installation of 10.04 on
> my VM, and /why/ the differences matter.  I'll have a go at building a
> minimal 10.04 installation and see where I get.  don't hold your
> breath.
> 
> alan, a stupid question: you're not running out of disk space are you?

Jon:
Please discontinue working on this. I wasn't running out of disk space;
I don't know what was going on but I'm guessing that there was something
wrong with the vps's 10.04 template. In any case, I've now replaced it
with 12.04 and your ppa is working beautifully. Thank you, and I'm sorry
to have bothered you with this.
Alan.