FC7 to FC8 Upgrade - fc8 needs 8KB ?

[Jim Duda]

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
-------------



Jim Cornette wrote:
> Jim Duda wrote:
>> I'm trying to upgrade from FC7 to FC8 via Yum.
>>
>> After dependencies are resolved and download occurs, the update 
>> starts, but fails with these messages:
>>
>>   installing package fedora-release-8-5 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>>   installing package perl-XML-SAX-0.16-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the / 
>> filesystem
>>   installing package xorg-x11-drv-tek4957-1.1.0-4.fc8 needs 8KB on the 
>> / filesystem
>>   installing package foomatic-3.0.2-53.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>>   installing package libgpg-error-1.5-6 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>>   installing package iksemel-1.3-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>>   installing package perl-XML-LibXML-Common-0.13-9 needs 8KB on the / 
>> filesystem
>>   installing package glx-utils-7.0.2-3.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>>   installing package rpm-python-4.4.2.2-7.fc8 needs 8KB on the / 
>> filesystem
>>
>> Error Summary
>> -------------
>>
>> Can anyone explain what needs 8KB on / filesystem means?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim
>>
> 
> Since upgrading all at once is limited by the amount of disk space 
> available in /var/cache/yum you might try to do incremental updates 
> starting with glibc and allowing it to pull in deps for the lib. 
> Afterward you might update certain packages in a certain alphabet like 
> yum -y upgrade "[a-d]*" and similar ranging.
> 
> You could make /var/cache/yum a larger drive depending on how your 
> partitions are setup. The incremental upgrade is the best approach. Also 
> upgrading in a real virtual terminal rather than a terminal within the 
> GUI is safer. If X crashes during a major upgrade you are i for a real 
> mess cleaning up the system.
> 
> Jim
>