Description of problem: Found my /var partition 100% full and saw 2Gb of cache. So, I did a "yum clean all" and got a traceback: [root var]# yum clean all Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 91, in main base.doLock(YUM_PID_FILE) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 538, in doLock while not self._lock(lockfile, mypid, 0644): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 583, in _lock os.write(fd, contents) OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.0-6 How reproducible: everytime
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194007 ***