yum update of glibc needs space that's already there
Thiers Botelho
thiers at fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br
Mon Apr 5 14:12:07 UTC 2004
Hi Duncan,
[for shortness - following broken thread under
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-April/msg00686.html ]
On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:19:41 -0500 "duncan brown" <duncanbrown email com>
asked:
|is this a server or a workstation?
That's a dual boot workstation box along with win2k prof .
|you should probably try cleaning out various cache files you may have
sitting around,
Well for the moment I'll treat them on a case by case basis until the
FINAL solution (whatever that might be). :/
|a 2GB drive (sadly) doesn't give you alot of room to play around with in
a modern distribution.
I know . . . if no simpler solution comes by I'll do a complete refitting
of both system's partitions with Partition Magic. But I'm still putting
the final touches on my backup solution, so I'm not quite ready for that
yet.
|
|[duncan atom Cache]$ pwd
|/home/duncan/.mozilla/default/1dky1wp0.slt/Cache
|[duncan atom Cache]$ du -sh .
|34M .
|
|that'll free up some space, if you try that... i have a script that i run
every morning and at least once a day that cleans out this dir...
|
|rm -fv ~/.mozilla/default/*/Cache/*
I just used explore2fs from windoze to visually inspect mozilla caches of
root and of the other user. I wouldn't gain more than 4 Mb if I cleaned
both.
|
|it sounds like you may need to do some spring cleaning, or hunting for
packages you never use to clean up that last bit of space.
ooo is a serious candidate for disintegration, but I don't think it should
all end this way (yet) :((
|-d
???
|have you tried to install these upgrades by hand? and MAKE SURE you
install the one appropriate to your archetecture with glibc
(i386/i686/etc), otherwise you'll hose your machine.
No, this I wouldn't like to do. At least not without trying first to
massage all partitions as explained above, which I think will ease further
occurrences of the problem.
Cheers
Thiers
|
|----- Original Message -----
|From: "Thiers Botelho" <thiers fosfertil-ultrafertil com br>
|Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:11:42 -0300
|To: fedora-list redhat com
|Subject: Re: yum update of glibc needs space that's already there
|
|> Hi Duncan,
|>
|> On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 07:51:34 -0500 "duncan brown" <duncanbrown email
com>
|> suggested:
|>
|> |... you should clean out your yum cache and try this again
|>
|> |[root atom yum]# yum clean
|> |[ snip ]
|> |Cleaning packages and old headers
|> [root atom yum]#
|>
|>
|> Well, I hadn't mentioned it for simplicity's sake. But my update
procedure
|> is (ALWAYS):
|>
|> ==================================================
|> df -m
|> yum clean
|> df -m
|> yum update xyz* *** 2 or 3 packages at a time
|> df -m
|> yum clean
|> df -m
|> ==================================================
|>
|>
|> On this particular case I also ran command block below (pasted and
adapted
|> from /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch )
|>
|> ==================================================
|> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 120 /tmp
|> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 120 /var/tmp
|> for d in /var/{cache/man,catman}/{cat?,X11R6/cat?,local/cat?}; do
|> if [ -d "$d" ]; then
|> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 120 $d
|> fi
|> done
|> ==================================================
|>
|>
|> And noticed no difference whatsoever under 'df -m' . :((
|>
|> Thiers
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