2013.12.23.4 "ERROR: local variable 'err' referenced before assignment" should be "Disk quota exceeded"

[Fusl]

youtube-dl throws "ERROR: local variable 'err' referenced before assignment" when there is no disk space available anymore but it should rather throw an error like "Disk quota exceeded" or "There was a problem downloading the video. Please make sure you have enough disk space."

Command: youtube-dl -i -k -x --audio-format wav --audio-quality 0 http://youtube.com/user/

[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.23.4
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-2.6.32-26-pve-x86_64-with-debian-7.3

[jaimeMF]

Could you please post the full output of running youtube-dl -i -k -x --audio-format wav --audio-quality 0 URL_HERE --verbose?, we need it to debug the problem.

[Fusl]

Sure:

root@v109:~# youtube-dl -i -k -x --audio-format wav --audio-quality 0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqk4ItPjU5g --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-i', '-k', '-x', '--audio-format', 'wav', '--audio-quality', '0', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqk4ItPjU5g', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'ANSI_X3.4-1968', fs 'ANSI_X3.4-1968', out 'ANSI_X3.4-1968', pref: 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.26
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-2.6.32-26-pve-x86_64-with-debian-7.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] qqk4ItPjU5g: Downloading webpage
[youtube] qqk4ItPjU5g: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] qqk4ItPjU5g: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Livestream from the 30c3 in Hamburg - Tag 1 [30c3][live]-qqk4ItPjU5g.mp4
[download]   0.0% of 1.60GiB at     ---b/s ETA Unknown ETA

ERROR: local variable 'err' referenced before assignment
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 501, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 528, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 718, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 883, in process_info
    success = fd.download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 290, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 138, in real_download
    self.report_error(u'unable to write data: %s' % str(err))
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'err' referenced before assignment

[phihag]

With the current version (2014.01.05.5), the output is a reasonable

ERROR: unable to write data: [Errno 27] File too large
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/phihag/projects/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 135, in real_download
    stream.write(data_block)
IOError: [Errno 27] File too large

This seems fine. To update, you can type sudo youtube-dl -U. I'm closing this issue now, but feel free to comment. If the issue persists, we'll simply reopen this ticket.