Bug 198049 - Yum destroys installation when it runs out of disk space
Summary: Yum destroys installation when it runs out of disk space
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-07-08 15:39 UTC by John Brearley
Modified: 2014-01-21 22:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-07-08 17:25:25 UTC
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Description John Brearley 2006-07-08 15:39:38 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2006-07-08 17:25:25 UTC
Yum has diskspace checks before installs.

Did you disable the diskspace check in your yum.conf?
 


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