Description of problem: Yum destroyed my Fedora Core 5 installation when it ran out of disk space. Yum showed me 940MB of updates to download, which I approved. Neither I nor Yum noticed that I only had about 800MB of disk space left. After yum finished its job, I rebooted the PC and was told that the X11 server wouldnt start. I tinkered a bit, gave up and reinstalled Fedora Core 5 with a slightly larger partition. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. have low disk space 2. get all available updates; type: yum update 3. when done, reboot. Actual results: toasted installation. Expected results: up to date installation Additional info: Please add disk space checks before proceeding with downloads & installation.
Yum has diskspace checks before installs. Did you disable the diskspace check in your yum.conf?