Up2date crash

[Alfred Hovdestad]

The other thing to try is to go to /var/lib/rpm and delete the __db* files:

cd /var/lib/rpm
rm __db*


Then try the up2date again.

    Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE
    University of Saskatchewan



Jeff wrote:
> Did that, it just says that the system is already up to date.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of chockalingam
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 01:01
>>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>Subject: Re: Up2date crash
>>
>>
>>Hi Jeff,
>> As instructed, delete all the rpm files in the 
>>/var/spool/up2date folder and reboot the server to normal and 
>>oce again try the up2date -u command for a complete update......
>>  regards,
>>Chockalingam.S
>>
>> On 10/5/05, Jeff <jsmforum at optonline.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----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
>>>
>>>
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