Reboot to single user mode, look to see if /var/spool/up2date is full. Try 'df -h' or 'du -h /var/spool/'. Find the full directory, clean it out and reboot to normal. You should be able to save this from a full install. Look here for howto on booting to single user. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 16:02, Jeff wrote: > Hey all, > > Running RHES3 and did an up2date. The / partition was full and because > of this up2date crashed during the install phase. > > Now the server won't boot correctly, I've lost X windows and have to > boot to runlevel 3. Non of my daemons start automatically so I have to > run /etc/init/network and every thing else in /etc/init.d/ manually to > get things going. > > If I run up2date -u again, I get the following. > > [root@mis02tc07927 root]# up2date -u > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1174, in ? > sys.exit(main() or 0) > File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 668, in main > up2dateAuth.updateLoginInfo() > File "up2dateAuth.py", line 151, in updateLoginInfo > File "up2dateAuth.py", line 105, in login > File "up2dateAuth.py", line 49, in maybeUpdateVersion > File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 228, in > getVersion > release, version = getOSVersionAndRelease() > File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 221, in > getOSVersionAndRelease > raise up2dateErrors.RpmError( > up2date_client.up2dateErrors.RpmError: RPM error. The message was: > Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running. > If you get this error, try running > > rpm --rebuilddb > > Although running rpm --rebuilddb does't help. > > Any ideas how I can unscrew this without a total re-install? > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- veritatis simplex oratio est Andrew Bacchi Staff Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute phone: 518 276-6415 fax: 518 276-2809 http://www.rpi.edu/~bacchi/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
