monstrous failure of "yum update" on fedora 11 alpha
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Wed Mar 4 10:04:58 UTC 2009
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i decided to "yum update" my f11 alpha system and, after
> downloading some 1500 packages, it went to work, unpacking about 500
> packages before every single package after that generated an
> unpacking error.
>
> has anyone else had a successful "yum update"?
>
> rday
>
> p.s. weirdly, some later packages are generating errors of
> "Couldn't create temporary file, no space left on device" but I went
> with the default filesystem layout so I have one large 80G root
> filesystem that isn't even *close* to being full.
ok, now it's getting stranger as, after several hundred packages
that failed to update, the occasional package *is* updating -- for
instance, the eclipse packages. then it goes back to generating
errors. are those packages actually healthy?
the update procedure finally self-destructs with (copied manually so
forgive any typoes):
...
tmpepoch = hdr['epoch']
TypeError: string indices must be integers, not str
this happened right after failing to update totem-nautilus.
rday
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