Re: Transaction Test failed

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 10:19 +0100, Leo wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  I tried to upgrade to 6.93 but `yum upgrade' failed. 
>  Transaction Check Error:
>    installing package glibc-common-2.5.90-21 needs 34MB on the / filesystem 
>  /dev/hda1             4.8G  4.0G  536M  89% / 
>  There is more than 34M in /. Bug? 
The issue is that all the packages are installed, then the old package
files removed, so the high point is higher than the current amount of
disk space.  I often do a 'yum install' of some of the large packages
(such as openoffice and glibc), before the general update, to break the
problem apart.

Andrew Bartlett

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