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
