> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Bacchi > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 16:25 > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: Up2date crash > > > 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 > No need for single user mode, I can get logged in running RL3. The full directory was /mnt/USBDrive. The problem was the was no external USB drive mounted and a backup script ran. This filled up / That's since been cleaned out. [root@mis02tc07927 up2date]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 11G 252M 9.9G 3% / /dev/sda3 122M 31M 85M 27% /boot /dev/sda2 2.5G 209M 2.2G 9% /home none 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda8 1012M 33M 928M 4% /tmp /dev/sda5 108G 63G 40G 62% /usr /dev/sda6 79G 35G 40G 47% /var That being said, /var/spool/up2date contains a lot of rpm files. Should I delete these? Jeff -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
