On 7/18/06, David Looney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>> > But if the files go in /var, which is a separate mounted file system,
>> > why is YaST2 telling me that / is nearly full? "Your shields are
>> > dangerously low!"
The Yast-Online-Update through SuSE 10.0 used
/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/[arch]/update/[version]/patches as the available
patch directory, and /var/lib/YaST2/you/installed as a list of packages.
Your's are clearly going somewhere else (/tmp maybe ?) You might be
able to find out by selecting a single package, then doing a find on /
to look for the root part of the package name. But
For what it's worth, this happened when I was trying to do the update
as part of an installation from CDs. Information upthread from
Legatus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says that this is not a good thing to
try to do.
In looking through the forums, I can't see this particular error,
however (running out of room on root). You might email Marcus Meissner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - could be something they haven't run into before.
You should be able to reach YaST2 from the KDE or Gnome menus though,
and run the libzypp update using Yast, rather than the built in update
tool (which was patched and supposedly fixed in June, but you can't fix
it if you can't install anything right).
As I was contemplating installing 10.1 soon, but I had heard bad things
about the new package management/update system in 10.1. Seems that
Yast-Online-Update is being abandoned in favor of Libzypp as the backend
software with the Zenworks Management Daemon (ZMD/RUG) as the GUI, and
that basically it's broken in one way or another for most users. Linux
Journal suggesting abandoning the Suse tools in favor of the SMART
package manager.
At the moment, I am trying to get a clean, un-patched, standard KDE
installation finished, without anything added on. I got tired of
shuffling CDs and thought to try an FTP install. So far the score is:
< ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/ > seemed not to have the necessary
software list to make the package selection;
< ftp://mirror.colorado.edu/ > somehow caused the computer to die
while "Evaluating package selection", dead as in no mouse, no
keyboard, <ctrl><alt><delete> rebooted;
< ftp://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/ > is still working, although it timed out
once about half an hour ago. I might have a fully downloaded
installation in another couple of hours.
Maybe it is time to buy a new computer instead of beating on this
8-year-old Thinkpad. It works perfectly well with Fedora Core 5, but
I thought I would try something completely different as a learning
experience.
carl
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