monstrous failure of "yum update" on fedora 11 alpha
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Mar 4 13:17:45 UTC 2009
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i decided to "yum update" my f11 alpha system and, after downloading
> some 1500 packages, it went to work, unpacking about 500 packages
> before every single package after that generated an unpacking error.
>
> has anyone else had a successful "yum update"?
I've had enough of brokenware for the present, I can't do what I want on
Fedora, but I can on Windows.
However, I wonder
1. Do you not have a separate /boot?
2. Are you using tmpfs in crucial places?
>
> rday
>
>
> p.s. weirdly, some later packages are generating errors of "Couldn't
> create temporary file, no space left on device" but I went with the
> default filesystem layout so I have one large 80G root filesystem that
> isn't even *close* to being full.
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Cheers
John
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