monstrous failure of "yum update" on fedora 11 alpha

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 4 14:27:11 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 04:59 -0500, 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.
> 

1. can you open a bug report?
2. can you put it in the full output you were seeing.

Since I've not been inundated with bug reports with anything like this
it sure seems like you have a special case.

-sv





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