Description of problem: Attempting to update FC4 box (box specs 512 Mb of RAM, 919M of Swap, 180Gb disk) from a DVD. Everything was proceding normal, the previous installaton of FC4 was found and selected to be updated. While preparing the transaction, after a few minutes a window appeared and claimed it failed due to being out of disk space. There are more than 150Gb free on the physical disk as reported by df -h. If its a disk its referring to, it must be a ram disk. The physical disk was unchanged after this, so FC4 still works. The popup also said it should let the user go back and try again, but I guess that feature hadn't been implemented,so the install just exited. If 512Mb of ram isn't enought to run anaconda/yum for fc5, then I guess this isn't a bug. But I don't know how I'll get updated if thats the case. I will say that I have a bunch of software installed. Both Gnome, and KDE, and Open Office and much more using yum. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC5 test 3 How reproducible: I didn't try to reproduce. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Upgrade failed due to out of disk space updating computer with modest amount of ram by todays standards, and lots of fc4 packages installed on it. Expected results: Ugrade to succeed. Additional info: Maybe yum should do smaller transactions by groups, such as base first, then X11..., my impression was it tried the whole thing as one huge transaction. I guess I can make a local repo out of my DVD, and then do an iterative update of the packages for myself.
*** Bug 183989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I forgot to mention in the bug report, that the FC4 has had software installed from other repositories as well. Maybe something is installed that would keep the FC5 update from happening? BTW sorry I made a duplicate, the bugzilla page said it failed due to invalid product name and asked me to go back. Maybe bugzilla has a bug to. Olen
You're probably getting a file conflict. If you look on tty3, you'll probably see what exactly is conflicting. We really should be handling this better :-/
Yes, looking on tty3 there was a conflict. Somehow the i386 version of gnome was 2.8.1, but the 64 bit version had been updated. I'll have to look again to even see why the i386 rpms are installed in fc4. Removing those with yum from the fc4 installation, and then doing an update works. The speed of the update seemed very slow, compared to past installs. It took about 4 hours. I only got to use the finished system a little while this morning after I got up. I will try to read through some bugzilla reports to see if some of the things I noticed have been documented here, if not I will add them as feed back for the fedora developers. On the whole, it looks pretty nice, seems to be working pretty well.
This should be fixed in FC5 Final