Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 71250
Aborted installs leave directories in /var/lib
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:45:25 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: Aborting an installation leaves anaconda-* directories in /var/lib that take up space and cause future installations to fail for lack of disk space. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start upgrade 2. Go to step that autoselects packages and begins to install them 3. Abort installation Actual Results: /var/lib/anaconda-* will be left behind in the currently mounted /mnt/sysimage/var/lib, and future installs do not clean up these directories. After enough aborted installs, /var will be full on the machine being upgraded, and future installs will fail for lack of disk space, or will fail mid-install complaining about installation media errors. Expected Results: Anaconda should look for and delete directories left behind by previously aborted installs Additional info:
We've changed our upgrade algorithm so that in most cases, this won't be a problem. Making further changes has the possibility of negatively blowing away an rpmdb backup that was intentionally made.