Description of problem: When I try to do a yum update of a live DVD boot, I get "Out of Memory" messages, then buffer I/O errors. System refuses to accept simple commands, making it impossible to save log files. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.4.3-141.fc21.noarch How reproducible: Have seen this in recent live DVD's of Fedora-Live-Jam Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the DVD 2. Use TAB key to add 3, causing booting to cli mode 3. Log in as root 4. yum update Actual results: Out of Memory errors, then system refuses to accept commands Expected results: Normal yum update Additional info: I had the required rpm's on hand so actually what I actually did was yum install <name1>.rpm <name2>.rpm ... I did the above, sending output to 2 separate files. There was no output on stderror. I saw stdout get to the final Cleanup line. Then, buffer I/O errors and the system froze. This techniqe, if it worked, might be of use when the current day's build has failed on koji, but the previous day's DVD can be updated without rebooting.
Created attachment 876724 [details] command to update Fedora-Live_Jam Got the bug updating Fedora-Live-Jam-KDE-x86_64-rawhide-20140318.iso about a day after its release. I got the names of the rpms to download by running yum check-update. I get I/O errors indicating dm-0 is full.
Also got the bug using rpm -iUv instead of yum install. Update starts OK, then I/O errors begin, and the system becomes unusable. Maybe telneting in would make it possible to save the console output.
Tried this update on a system with 4G of memory, booting in mode 3, and issuing the yum command from a root command line. To avoid danger to the hard disk containing the rpms, I copy the needed rpms and the command to /root, and unmount the disk before starting yum.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle. Changing version to '22'. More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.