yum update requests a few megabytes and can't see there's plenty available
Thiers Botelho
thiers at fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br
Wed Feb 18 18:43:36 UTC 2004
Hi all,
Bear with me today please. After a half-slept night finishing a long
overdue report I feel like a brainless zombie . . . :-/
As I'm now toiling on the dark side of my dual-boot box (no Lotus Notes on
Fedora yet, folks), I will quote some errors from memory (er . . . my
cerebral memory, not my computer memory). If needed, I'll make a supreme
effort to move myself and penetrate the mirror to Fedora's side and
reproduce this stuff more exactly.
Well, it goes like this:
I did the sequence below quite a few times with 100% success:
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yum check-update
df -k
yum update ab* cd* (4 to 10 packages at a time)
df -k
yum update ef* gh* (a few more packages while available filesystem
space does not shrink much)
df -k
yum clean
df -k
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After a number of iterations (at the end of each I had about 200 Mb
available on filesystem) I had managed to shrink the update queue to about
12 large packages.
Then I started to receive following error from yum update (for any single
package, first one glibc IIRC):
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6Mb are required in the / filesystem
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I tried each of the remaining packages and received same message for each
one, with varying Mb values (up to 17 for mozilla I think).
After some some searches and googling I'm still clueless. Anyone with an
idea on what's this issue about ?
BTW, I have only 3 filesystems - /boot, / and swap, and I don't think I
might have been watching the wrong one.
Cheers
Thiers
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