Jim Duda wrote:
Jim,
I followed your suggestion and did updates in small chucks. I had to
dance around the updating of 'f*'. I have it boiled down to just one
more update, that being 'filesystem'. Is this just a coincidence that
updating "filesystem" needs 8kb on / filesystem? I don't think this is
a disk space issue, as I did many large multi-megabyte updates in
various chunks.
Attempting to delete and reinstall filesystem would be ugly as it
involves 1000+ packages.
lroom# yum -y check-update
filesystem.i386 2.4.11-1.fc8 fedora
lroom# yum -y update
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package filesystem.i386 0:2.4.11-1.fc8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
filesystem i386 2.4.11-1.fc8 fedora 118 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 1 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 118 k
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error:
installing package filesystem-2.4.11-1.fc8.i386 needs 8KB on the /
filesystem
Error Summary
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I did an rpm -ql filesystem |less and there were listings way in excess
of other packages I queried in the past. So apparently filesystem is
actually ensuring the / partition has enough space. I never used ramfs
for the initial / filesystem or nfs mounted system partitions.
As the only idea I would have for installing filesystem which is a
fairly small package, I would try to install it without all the nfs
mounts. Since I am not familiar at all with the system you have and
reading your earlier posting which contained all of the volume mounting
distributions, it overwhelmed me in its complexity.
This is an interesting problem caused by such a small package. That does
not help you out much though in resolution. Somehow / has to be
increased by at least 8kb, if emptying /tmp, not mounting volumes or
entering single user mode will help is only guesswork.
Jim
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Serenity through viciousness.
