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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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com

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