[Novalug] yum problem

Kevin Dwyer kevin at pheared.net
Sat Aug 11 15:40:06 EDT 2007


On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 10:05:35AM -0700, Beartooth wrote:
> 
> 	Suddenly I get screensful of messages from yum, saying of 
> one package after another, " Insufficient space in download 
> directory //var/cache/yum/updates/packages to download"
> 
> 	But I also see this :
> 
> [root at localhost updates]# cd
> [root at localhost ~]# ls -l /var/cache/yum/updates/packages
> total 0
> [root at localhost ~]#
> 
> 	What has happened? What do I do about it?

More useful would be: df -h /var/cache/yum/updates/packages

Whichever partition contains /var is probably full.

-kpd



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