Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 132064
up2date checks the diskspace only for the binary packages
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux 2.6.6-1.435.2.3smp) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: When up2date performs an update (or any other installation action) it checks the diskspace, but does this only for the binary packages. (actually only for packages that are going to be installed). When retrieveSource=1 the source packages are being retrieved as well, but as the calculation of the diskspace is being done before downloading and there is no further check afterwards (or while installing) disk space might get low and the database (?) might get inconsistent. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set retrieveSource=1 in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date 2. have little disk space left or fill the disk after up2date did the diskspace 3. start up2date -u Actual Results: inconsistent RPM DB
To clarify a little on inspection of the box in question various packages were removed from rpmdb but were not updated/removed from filesystem. I generated a manifest based on /var/log/up2date array and matching against n-v-r key in db. If not installed (and not kernel*) I outputed to missing-packages [root@dhcp-136 tmp]# wc -l missing-packages 77 missing-packages Attempting install from manifest: rpm -Uv --test --percent missing-packages ... installing package openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-16.13.EL needs 51MB on the / filesystem installing package openldap-clients-2.0.27-17 needs 51MB on the / filesystem installing package ntsysv-1.3.11-0.3 needs 51MB on the / filesystem installing package nss_ldap-207-11 needs 54MB on the / filesystem installing package nfs-utils-1.0.6-31EL needs 54MB on the / filesystem Included in there were things like XFree86. up2date looks like it's disabling disk space checking rpm.RPMPROB_FILTER_DISKSPACE Suggestions - don't ignore diskspare errors, add src.rpm calculation to totalSize in BatchRun
There are two components to the space calculation. The first one is at the up2date app level and is an attempt to see if there is enought diskspace in /var/spool/up2date to download all the needed packages. Currently that only calculates space needed for binary packages. At the moment, the client/server protocol doesnt have any mechnanism for determining the size of the src rpms before downloading them, so that would have to change to do this correctly. The other size calculation is done by rpm, and thats the calculation to see if there is enough space to actually _install_ the packages.
Blocking rhnupr4u4 and rhnupr3u8 to track the progress of the release
Moving bugs to the CanFix List
This bug did not make the code freeze and it will not be fiixed during this release cycle. Re-aligning bug to the next release
This bug did not make the code freeze. It will not be fixed in this releasee Reea ligning to the next one.
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