Yum update failure -

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 05:24:13 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:

> I tried to yum update this computer and got the following error:
> 
>   One of the configured repositories failed (Fedora 21 - x86_64),
>   and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the 
> only
>   safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:
> .............
> Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/fedora
>      * free   0
>      * needed 100 k
> .............
> 
> It suggests such things as:
> 
>   3. Disable the repository, so yum won't use it by default. Yum will then
>          just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it 
> again or use
>          --enablerepo for temporary usage:
> 
>              yum-config-manager --disable fedora
> .............
> 
> [root at bobgASRockServer bobg]# du -h /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/fedora
> 4.0K    /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/fedora/gen
> 4.0K    /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/fedora/packages
> 12K    /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/fedora
> 
> [root at bobgASRockServer bobg]# du -h /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/
> 4.0K    /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/fedora/gen
> 4.0K    /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/fedora/packages
> 12K    /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/fedora
> 4.0K    /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/updates/gen
> 40K    /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/updates/packages
> 48K    /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/updates
> 68K    /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/
> 
> 
> It doesn't look like there are any large files? I don't understand 
> what's going on here. two other F-21 computers updated normally.

You forgot to show how much free space there _is_.
Then, after you've done that, run "yum clean metadata" and retry.
Also check the directory access permission bits -- just in case.