Jim,
I followed your suggestion and did updates in small chucks. I had to dance around the updating of 'f*'. I have it boiled down to just one more update, that being 'filesystem'. Is this just a coincidence that updating "filesystem" needs 8kb on / filesystem? I don't think this is a disk space issue, as I did many large multi-megabyte updates in various chunks.
Attempting to delete and reinstall filesystem would be ugly as it involves 1000+ packages.
lroom# yum -y check-update
filesystem.i386 2.4.11-1.fc8 fedora
lroom# yum -y update Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package filesystem.i386 0:2.4.11-1.fc8 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Updating: filesystem i386 2.4.11-1.fc8 fedora 118 k
Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 1 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 118 k Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error: installing package filesystem-2.4.11-1.fc8.i386 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
Error Summary -------------
Jim Cornette wrote:
Jim Duda wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade from FC7 to FC8 via Yum.
After dependencies are resolved and download occurs, the update starts, but fails with these messages:
installing package fedora-release-8-5 needs 8KB on the / filesystem installing package perl-XML-SAX-0.16-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem installing package xorg-x11-drv-tek4957-1.1.0-4.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem installing package foomatic-3.0.2-53.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem installing package libgpg-error-1.5-6 needs 8KB on the / filesystem installing package iksemel-1.3-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem installing package perl-XML-LibXML-Common-0.13-9 needs 8KB on the / filesystem installing package glx-utils-7.0.2-3.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem installing package rpm-python-4.4.2.2-7.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
Error Summary
Can anyone explain what needs 8KB on / filesystem means?
Thanks,
Jim
Since upgrading all at once is limited by the amount of disk space available in /var/cache/yum you might try to do incremental updates starting with glibc and allowing it to pull in deps for the lib. Afterward you might update certain packages in a certain alphabet like yum -y upgrade "[a-d]*" and similar ranging.
You could make /var/cache/yum a larger drive depending on how your partitions are setup. The incremental upgrade is the best approach. Also upgrading in a real virtual terminal rather than a terminal within the GUI is safer. If X crashes during a major upgrade you are i for a real mess cleaning up the system.
Jim