No space left error

[rootlikegroot]

What happened:
Can't use the tool to scan due to an error that no space left on the device, even though i have enough space

└─$ grype db update -vvv
[0000] INFO grype version: 0.84.0
[0000] DEBUG config:
log:
quiet: false
level: trace
file: ""
dev:
profile: none
db:
cache-dir: /home/groot/.cache/grype/db
update-url: https://toolbox-data.anchore.io/grype/databases/listing.json
ca-cert: ""
auto-update: true
validate-by-hash-on-start: false
validate-age: true
max-allowed-built-age: 120h0m0s
require-update-check: true
update-available-timeout: 30s
update-download-timeout: 5m0s
max-update-check-frequency: 2h0m0s
[0000] TRACE no max-frequency set for update check
[0000] DEBUG checking for available database updates
[0000] DEBUG found database update candidate: Listing(url=https://grype.anchore.io/databases/vulnerability-db_v5_2024-11-19T01:31:45Z_1731990207.tar.gz)
[0000] DEBUG cannot find existing metadata, using update...
[0000] DEBUG database update available: Listing(url=https://grype.anchore.io/databases/vulnerability-db_v5_2024-11-19T01:31:45Z_1731990207.tar.gz)
[0000] INFO downloading new vulnerability DB
[0004] TRACE worker stopped component=eventloop
[0004] TRACE signal exit component=eventloop
unable to update vulnerability database: unable to update vulnerability database: unable to download db: write /tmp/getter2468548383/archive: no space left on device

What you expected to happen:
Get no error when scanning,
How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
grype | tee results / grype > results

Environment:

• Output of grype version:
  Application: grype
  Version: 0.84.0
  BuildDate: 2024-11-05T14:54:52Z
  GitCommit: c8d5ffc
  GitDescription: v0.84.0
  Platform: linux/amd64
  GoVersion: go1.23.2
  Compiler: gc
  Syft Version: v1.16.0
  Supported DB Schema: 5

• OS (e.g: cat /etc/os-release or similar):
  PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
  NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
  VERSION_ID="2024.3"
  VERSION="2024.3"
  VERSION_CODENAME=kali-rolling
  ID=kali
  ID_LIKE=debian
  HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/"
  SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/"
  BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/"
  ANSI_COLOR="1;31"

[spiffcs]

@rootlikegroot do you have any details on the volumes on the system?

Is there maybe a /tmp or home volume that is out of space that grype is operating on?

Grype downloads the DB to TMPDIR and then copies the contents over to home. Maybe one of these locations is running out of space before grype can execute?

[popey]

Further to @spiffcs comment - you can override TMPDIR to point to somewhere that you do have space.

alan@Alans-MacBook-Pro  ~  mkdir $HOME/tmp
alan@Alans-MacBook-Pro  ~  export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp
alan@Alans-MacBook-Pro  ~  echo $TMPDIR
/Users/alan/tmp
alan@Alans-MacBook-Pro  ~  grype db update
⠴ Vulnerability DB                ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  [118 MB / 199 MB]
CTRL+C
alan@Alans-MacBook-Pro  ~  ls $HOME/tmp
getter2404191555        grype-scratch2315966201