Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 88781
rhn up2date report not enough space on /boot
Last modified: 2012-06-20 11:57:13 EDT
Description of problem: Error reported when trying to update kernel using rhn, Fatal RPM error: Failed to install packages: Â ('installing package kernel-debug-2.4.18-27.7x needs 2Mb on the /boot filesystem', (9, '/boot', 114808L) then same for 3 other packages. heze% df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2181G 8.6G 163G 5% / /dev/hda1 45M 27M 16M 62% /boot Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: up2date on my machine, only kernel packages need updating. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: none Expected results: updqate kernel Additional info:
*** Bug 88782 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
More info from command line up2date -pu heze.hi.gemini.edu% up2date -pu Updating package profile... Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... ######################################## Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... ######################################## kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x.athlon ########################## Done. kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-27.7.x.i ########################## Done. kernel-bigmem-2.4.18-27.7.x ########################## Done. kernel-debug-2.4.18-27.7.x. ########################## Done. kernel-doc-2.4.18-27.7.x.i3 ########################## Done. kernel-smp-2.4.18-27.7.x.at ########################## Done. kernel-source-2.4.18-27.7.x ########################## Done. Preparing... ########################################### [100%] There was a fatal RPM error. The message was: Failed installing packages: ('installing package kernel-debug-2.4.18-27.7.x needs 2Mb on the /boot filesystem', (9, '/boot', 1143808L)) ('installing package kernel-doc-2.4.18-27.7.x needs 2Mb on the /boot filesystem', (9, '/boot', 1143808L)) ('installing package kernel-smp-2.4.18-27.7.x needs 7Mb on the /boot filesystem', (9, '/boot', 6464512L)) ('installing package kernel-source-2.4.18-27.7.x needs 7Mb on the /boot filesystem', (9, '/boot', 6464512L)) heze% df -h /boot Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 45M 27M 16M 62% /boot
When is this likely to be solved. I still can't upgrade using up2date, I now have 50 packages out of date and each one complains I don't have enough space (7MB) on /boot even though I do (16MB)...
I'm pretty sure you *are* running out of space. RPM is trying to upgrade: 1. kernel 2. kernel-BOOT 3. kernel-bigmem 4. kernel-debug 5. kernel-doc 6. kernel-smp 7. kernel-source *all* in the same transaction. 4 out of the 7 packages together use 2 + 2 + 7 + 7 MB (18MB). And that's not even including the uniprocessor kernel package. So, you almost definitely are running out of disk space on /boot for the entire transaction as a whole. Are you using kernel-debug, or kernel-smp? If not, might want to remove those. Also, if you have versions you're not using, remove them. Once you have space freed up, try updating again.
MY grub file is below, which should I leave for best performance on a dual-processor AMD Althon system? # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3bigmem) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3bigmem ro root=/dev/hda2 hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3bigmem.img title Red Hat Linux-smp (2.4.18-3smp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3smp ro root=/dev/hda2 hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3smp.img title Red Hat Linux-up (2.4.18-3) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda2 hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img
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