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=
=20
of the glibc package. I'm now verifying all packages and fixing broken=20
dependencies.
It looks to me like yum needs to be more careful about disk space...
Thanks,
B
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