Re: yum update of glibc needs space that's already there

From: duncan brown (duncanbrown_at_email.com)
Date: 04/05/04

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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:19:41 -0500

    is this a server or a workstation? you should probably try cleaning out various cache files you may have sitting around, a 2GB drive (sadly) doesn't give you alot of room to play around with in a modern distribution.

    [duncan@atom Cache]$ pwd
    /home/duncan/.mozilla/default/1dky1wp0.slt/Cache
    [duncan@atom Cache]$ du -sh .
    34M .

    that'll free up some space, if you try that... i have a script that i run every morning and at least once a day that cleans out this dir...

    rm -fv ~/.mozilla/default/*/Cache/*

    it sounds like you may need to do some spring cleaning, or hunting for packages you never use to clean up that last bit of space.

    -d

    have you tried to install these upgrades by hand? and MAKE SURE you install the one appropriate to your archetecture with glibc (i386/i686/etc), otherwise you'll hose your machine.

    -d

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Thiers Botelho" <thiers@fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br>
    Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:11:42 -0300
    To: fedora-list@redhat.com
    Subject: Re: yum update of glibc needs space that's already there

    > Hi Duncan,
    >
    > [for shortness - following broken thread under
    > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-April/msg00686.html ]
    >
    >
    > On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 07:51:34 -0500 "duncan brown" <duncanbrown email com>
    > suggested:
    >
    > |... you should clean out your yum cache and try this again
    >
    > |[root atom yum]# yum clean
    > |[ snip ]
    > |Cleaning packages and old headers
    > [root atom yum]#
    >
    >
    > Well, I hadn't mentioned it for simplicity's sake. But my update procedure
    > is (ALWAYS):
    >
    > ==================================================
    > df -m
    > yum clean
    > df -m
    > yum update xyz* *** 2 or 3 packages at a time
    > df -m
    > yum clean
    > df -m
    > ==================================================
    >
    >
    > On this particular case I also ran command block below (pasted and adapted
    > from /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch )
    >
    > ==================================================
    > /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 120 /tmp
    > /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 120 /var/tmp
    > for d in /var/{cache/man,catman}/{cat?,X11R6/cat?,local/cat?}; do
    > if [ -d "$d" ]; then
    > /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 120 $d
    > fi
    > done
    > ==================================================
    >
    >
    > And noticed no difference whatsoever under 'df -m' . :((
    >
    > Thiers
    >
    >
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