Up2date crash

[Jeff]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Bacchi
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 16:25
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Up2date crash
> 
> 
> Reboot to single user mode, look to see if /var/spool/up2date 
> is full. 
> Try 'df -h' or 'du -h /var/spool/'.  Find the full directory, 
> clean it out and reboot to normal.  You should be able to 
> save this from a full install.
> 
> Look here for howto on booting to single user. 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom
> -guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html
> 
> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 16:02, Jeff wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Running RHES3 and did an up2date.  The / partition was full and 
> > because of this up2date crashed during the install phase.
> > 
> > Now the server won't boot correctly, I've lost X windows 
> and have to 
> > boot to runlevel 3.  Non of my daemons start automatically 
> so I have 
> > to run /etc/init/network and every thing else in 
> /etc/init.d/ manually 
> > to get things going.
> > 
> > If I run up2date -u again, I get the following.
> > 
> > [root at mis02tc07927 root]# up2date -u
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1174, in ?
> >     sys.exit(main() or 0)
> >   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 668, in main
> >     up2dateAuth.updateLoginInfo()
> >   File "up2dateAuth.py", line 151, in updateLoginInfo
> >   File "up2dateAuth.py", line 105, in login
> >   File "up2dateAuth.py", line 49, in maybeUpdateVersion
> >   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", 
> line 228, in 
> > getVersion
> >     release, version = getOSVersionAndRelease()
> >   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", 
> line 221, in 
> > getOSVersionAndRelease
> >     raise up2dateErrors.RpmError(
> > up2date_client.up2dateErrors.RpmError: RPM error.  The message was: 
> > Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are 
> running. If 
> > you get this error, try running
> > 
> >                 rpm --rebuilddb
> > 
> > Although running rpm --rebuilddb does't help.
> > 
> > Any ideas how I can unscrew this without a total re-install?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
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No need for single user mode, I can get logged in running RL3.  

The full directory was /mnt/USBDrive.  The problem was the was no
external USB drive mounted and a backup script ran.  This filled up /

That's since been cleaned out.

[root at mis02tc07927 up2date]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7              11G  252M  9.9G   3% /
/dev/sda3             122M   31M   85M  27% /boot
/dev/sda2             2.5G  209M  2.2G   9% /home
none                 1004M     0 1004M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda8            1012M   33M  928M   4% /tmp
/dev/sda5             108G   63G   40G  62% /usr
/dev/sda6              79G   35G   40G  47% /var


That being said, /var/spool/up2date contains a lot of rpm files.  Should
I delete these?

Jeff