Bug 703820 - yum upgrade fail : installing package needs disk space on / filesystem, but there's more available disk space than requested
Summary: yum upgrade fail : installing package needs disk space on / filesystem, but t...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 15
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-11 10:36 UTC by Yann Droneaud
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-05-13 13:09:25 UTC
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yum upgrade output (68.82 KB, text/x-log)
2011-05-11 10:40 UTC, Yann Droneaud 		no flags Details
yum --verbose upgrade log (280.10 KB, text/x-log)
2011-05-11 10:42 UTC, Yann Droneaud 		no flags Details
yum upgrade output (65.07 KB, text/x-log)
2011-05-13 11:23 UTC, Yann Droneaud 		no flags Details
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Description Yann Droneaud 2011-05-11 10:36:59 UTC 
Description of problem:

Since "yum distro-sync" doesn't work after preupgrade from f14 to f15, see bug #703732, I'm trying to use "yum upgrade" instead, but it fails too, with error messages about missing disk space. It says the update will requires less than 800MBytes on root filesystem and fails. But root filesystem has 2.5GBytes available.

Something is wrong in the required space computation, or the error message is unclear.
Comment 1 Yann Droneaud 2011-05-11 10:40:16 UTC 
Created attachment 498250 [details]
yum upgrade output
Comment 2 Yann Droneaud 2011-05-11 10:42:11 UTC 
Created attachment 498252 [details]
yum --verbose upgrade log
Comment 3 Yann Droneaud 2011-05-13 11:23:47 UTC 
Created attachment 498747 [details]
yum upgrade output

Today it requires less disk space: 222MBytes, but it still fail to upgrade anything.
Comment 4 Panu Matilainen 2011-05-13 11:29:58 UTC 
The message might be a bit ambiguous, the "needs XX MB" just means the transaction would need that much /more/ free space than is available to complete. So not a bug really, just a slightly unclear error message.
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