monstrous failure of "yum update" on fedora 11 alpha

[Eric Sandeen]

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.

There was a bug in an early F11 kernel which would cause this sort of
thing on ext4.  Was your box upgrading from the original alpha kernel?

-Eric