> i type "y", hit return, looooooooong pause with much disk activity, then > > "Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit" > > ... another long pause and more disk activity, then numerous lines of > output: > > installing package <blah> needs xxyyMB on the /usr filesystem > > where the numeric value "xxyy" is clearly increasing slowly and finishes > at 286MB. there's about 525M available on /usr, and i don't get an error > message but when it's done, nothing's been updated, nothing in the > log file /var/log/yum.log. am i missing something? why was nothing > updated? running "yum list updates" again shows the same 400+ packages > that are available for updating. 1. you're not using 2.0.4 2. those are error message prohibiting the update b/c you have too little disk space - there are just lots of them w/too little disk space 3. those messages should be being outputted to stderr not stdout. hth. -sv
