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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- Joe Sauer <jsauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> DULUG