[Yum] near death upgrade

[Joe Sauer]

I've unfortunately also had /var totally fill up too (when doing a massive set
of updates. For a 7.3 systems, w/ yum-1.0-1_73). I got tons of rpm
errors as a result and thought the system was going to be hosed or something.

However, I was able to kill the rpm and yum process', move some logs and
other stuff (to make room) yum update, then run 'yum clean packages' and
replace what I moved, et voila. 

I just need to keep an eye on the size of packages being updated...until
I can get a saner partitioning of this system.(which "fortunatly" I
didn't install but I'm stuck w/ it for a bit as is.. :)

Doing an actual check of the total size of _everything_ that yum will download and/or
generate to ensure it has XMBs of room, would be very useful/nice/sane imo.
How hard that is to implement, I have no idea, as of now. But I'm sure that Seth, Michael 
and others will let us know. (at least I don't recall much talk about it until now)


-Joe 

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 20:24, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 15:25, Brian Lalor wrote:
> > Hey all.  I just upgraded my laptop from RH7.3 to RH9 the old fashioned
> > way (via CD).  After upgrading, I installed yum and did an upgrade.  I
> > soon found myself up the proverbial effluent stream without a method of
> > propulsion, or nearly so, anyway.  /var filled up as yum downloaded
> > packages and I got lots of errors about being unable to write to
> > /var/lib/rpm/Packages.  When the update finally finished, glibc wasn't in
> > the RPM database and some files were missing, which caused things like rpm
> > to be unable to run due to bad dependencies.  I've also got bits and
> > pieces of the newest kernel hanging around, but it also is not in the
> > database.  I finally got back up and running by copying over the contents 
> > of the glibc package.  I'm now verifying all packages and fixing broken 
> > dependencies.
> 
> ok I reread this again.
> 
> let's take a step back:
> 
> you upgraded to 9 via cd
> then you used yum (what version?)
> pointed at which repos (post your yum.conf if you could)
> 
> to do a yum update.
> 
> at this point all you should have been getting was the security-release
> rpms.
> 
> how full was your drive?
> 
> completely?
> 
> all of the updates, if you needed every single one are 300M total.
> 
> Did you have _that_ little space in /var?
> 
> thanks
> -sv
> 
> 
> 
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