On 4/16/07, bgschaid_lists@xxxxxxxxx <bgschaid_lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just an update and an additional question concerning this:
>>>>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:53:34 +0200
>>>>> "bl" == bgschaid lists <bgschaid_lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
bl> Hi!
bl> I'm having a problem upgrading an existing 4.4 installation to
bl> 5.0.
bl> - The machine is a x86_64 architecture - I'm upgrading from a
bl> DVD - I've used the same DVD to sucessfully upgrade another
bl> machine (therefor I'm pretty sure that it is OK) - The error
bl> occurs on both DVD-drives on the machine (therefor I think its
bl> not a problem with a particular DVD-drive)
bl> I'm clicking through the upgrade dialogs. Then the machine
bl> prepares to install the packages. At the end of this a
bl> dialog-box appears:
bl> Error running transaction There was an error running your
bl> transaction for the following reason(s):
bl> Apart from that text there is only a Reboot-button (no
bl> explanation)
bl> On the other virtual terminals there is nothing unusual (last
bl> line in Ctrl+Alt+F3 is "Preparing to install packages")
bl> The /root/upgrade.log is empty.
bl> My guess is that there might be some packages that offend the
bl> installer (there are some non-standard packages on the
bl> machine, don't shout at me: I know that's bad (amongst them a
bl> 32-bit firefox)). Is there a way to find out which packages
bl> are the bad ones?
bl> Any tips would be most welcome. Thanks
bl> PS: What I'm trying right now is removing the worst offenders
bl> and retry the upgrade procedure in text mode.
Text modus doesn't help
Stupid question: is it possible that the reason for this error message
is that the estimated size of all the packages that are to be updated
(3.2 Gig) is bigger than the remaining free space on the root
partition (2.5 Gig)?
It could be, but it is supposed to trigger an exception telling you
need more space on the system (and how much).
I have run into the same problem, and it might be a similar issue as
the box only had 1.2 GB free and was updating 3.2 gb of data.. I am
trying to figure out how to get a break set to get a better idea on
the erorr.
--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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