https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848729 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848729#c0 Summary: update renders system unbootable Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: RC 2 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: rschweikert@suse.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- On a system with 512MB boot partition installation of perl-Bootloader and kernel-? packages fails during zypper dup from 12.3 to 13.1 RC2 ( 16/265) Installing: perl-Bootloader-0.711-1.1 ........................[error] Installation of perl-Bootloader-0.711-1.1 failed: (with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/boot.readme;5273ffec: cpio: open failed - No space left on device error: perl-Bootloader-0.711-1.1.x86_64: install failed error: perl-Bootloader-0.708-1.1.1.x86_64: erase skipped Installation of grub-0.97-194.1.2 failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/boot;5274114f: cpio: symlink error: grub-0.97-194.1.2.x86_64: install failed error: grub-0.97-188.1.1.x86_64: erase skipped ( 71/2784) Installing: kernel-default-devel-3.11.6-3.1 ................[error] Installation of kernel-default-devel-3.11.6-3.1 failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/symtypes-3.11.6-3-default.gz;52741165: cpio: open failed - No such file or directory error: kernel-default-devel-3.11.6-3.1.x86_64: install failed ( 376/2784) Installing: kernel-default-3.11.6-3.1 ......................[error] Installation of kernel-default-3.11.6-3.1 failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-3.11.6-3-default;52741207: cpio: open failed - No such file or directory error: kernel-default-3.11.6-3.1.x86_64: install failed The /boot directory is empty after the perl-Bootloader install fails. # ls -la /boot/ total 0 # du -sh /boot 4.0K /boot # mount | grep boot /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime) # df ... ... /dev/sda1 504740 154866 323814 33% /boot .. .. -- 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.