yum update of glibc needs space that's already there

[duncan brown]

is this a server or a workstation?  you should probably try cleaning out various cache files you may have sitting around, a 2GB drive (sadly) doesn't give you alot of room to play around with in a modern distribution.

[duncan at atom Cache]$ pwd
/home/duncan/.mozilla/default/1dky1wp0.slt/Cache
[duncan at 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/*

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.

-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.

-d


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thiers Botelho" <thiers at fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:11:42 -0300
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: yum update of glibc needs space that's already there

> Hi Duncan,
>  
> [for shortness - following broken thread under 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-April/msg00686.html ]
>  
> 
>  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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