yum update of glibc needs space that's already there
Thiers Botelho
thiers at fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br
Mon Apr 5 12:41:35 UTC 2004
Hi all,
When doing 'yum update' for a couple of glibc packages, it complained
requiring 41MB on '/' filesystem:
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[root at inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# yum update gl*
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[update: glibc 2.3.2-101.4.i686]
[update: glibc-common 2.3.2-101.4.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Getting glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rpm
glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rp 100% |=========================| 4.9 MB 05:31
Getting glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm
glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4. 100% |=========================| 12 MB 21:47
Running test transaction:
Errors reported doing trial run
installing package glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4 needs 41MB on the / filesystem
[root at inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]#
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BUT at the time I had 151Mb available on same '/' filesystem:
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[root at inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda9 1937 1707 151 92% /
/dev/hda7 29 7 21 24% /boot
none 125 0 125 0% /dev/shm
[root at inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]#
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BTW, my versions of updating apps are (from /var/log/yum.log ):
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[ snip ]
04/02/04 13:04:19 Updated: yum 2.0.5-1.noarch
04/02/04 13:23:26 Updated: up2date-gnome 4.1.21-3.i386
04/02/04 13:23:26 Updated: up2date 4.1.21-3.i386
[ snip ]
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And on a side note, I have exactly the same problem with 'yum update moz*'
- the requirement for mozilla and friends is actually bigger. But I'd like
to solve glibc first.
OK. So 1 have 4 questions:
1. Who among yum / rpm / glibc is actually requesting space ?
2. Is this some kind of bug? Or should I understand that what's actually
needed is a total of (151 + 41 = 192) Mb ?
3. Can I find out on which dir(s) this space will be used ? (and probably
rearrange my cramped system with specific filesystems for those)
4. Is there a doc / page / ebook somewhere where I could understand this
stuff better ?
Thnx all
Thiers
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