[Bug 278516] New: cannot install/upgrade anything
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278516 Summary: cannot install/upgrade anything Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bluedzins@wp.pl QAContact: jsrain@novell.com I have already reported cryptic yast errors while installing/upgrading: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: --- -?- but this seemed to be temporary (I mean, I could quit yast, run it again, and it was fine again). Now, I am facing this problem the second day in row, and I cannot simply use yast again. No matter what I try to install, and how, I get this error. I can use rpm in command-line though, but since I try to upgrade KDE to 3.5.7 downloading and installing all those packages manually... So, basically now I am stuck. I have about 1.5GB free on root partition. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278516 mhorvath@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |bluedzins@wp.pl ------- Comment #1 from mhorvath@novell.com 2007-05-31 09:17 MST ------- Please attach your yast logs (http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST). Is the previous bug report this one: 271034? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278516 bluedzins@wp.pl changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|bluedzins@wp.pl | ------- Comment #2 from bluedzins@wp.pl 2007-05-31 10:59 MST ------- Matej, logs have 9MB -- I cannot attach them. The report you mentioned is just about displaying errors, it occurred on my computer, this report is about being unable to install anything via yast (the cryptic error is common thing here; I think it is just effect not the cause), and it occurs on another computer. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278516 mhorvath@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |bluedzins@wp.pl ------- Comment #3 from mhorvath@novell.com 2007-06-07 10:34 MST ------- Ok, but you can split the file into pieces: http://www.onlamp.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=s/split and attach each part separately. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278516 bluedzins@wp.pl changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|bluedzins@wp.pl | ------- Comment #4 from bluedzins@wp.pl 2007-06-08 10:44 MST ------- Well, ok, I can split the file, but: a) uploading > 9MB of logs it is not efficient b) the limit was set for purpose I guess, so I don't want to have my account blocked because I am some kind of log-spammer Ok, I start uploading... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278516 mhorvath@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |lslezak@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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Ladislav Slezak
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--- Comment #16 from Maciej Pilichowski
The problem should be solved by adding a memory into the machine or add extra swap space (can be a file if you don't have a spare partition). Package update requires a lot of memory, sometimes it succeeded probably because there was enough memory for the operation...
256MB RAM + 186MB swap = ~ > 400MB. I would say that requirements are terrible. When the proper error handling will be introduced I will test it some more, I would like to check if the mem requirement is related to package size. In the meantime my system crashed, so I had to reinstall everything. So I installed KDE 3.5.7, this time successfully, but on pretty fresh system. So maybe it is not the memory itself (I cannnot believe 400MB is not enough just for installing anything), but maybe log size, HDD free space, something like that (I think about real technical reason, because of course your reverse-translation is 100% accurate).
(AFAIK the size limit for attachments is about 5MB, you can use larger parts next time, it's more convenient...)
AFAIR I tried it before and the attachment was rejected, maybe something changed since then but I have too slow connection to test uploading of 5MB again :-). I believe that even splitting it into chunks is a bit of abuse this forum rules. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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