error on kernel-update

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I just made another update (zypper dup) and I got the following error message:

Installation of kernel-desktop-3.4.28-2.20.1 failed:
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: installing package kernel-desktop-3.4.28-2.20.1.x86_64 needs 134MB on the / filesystem

I have already had some similar error messages before and I solved them all out by either retrying or ignoring. But this time it wasn’t that easy. I tried to do the update with Apper as well as using Yast → Online Update but I had no success. My root filesystem has more space left than the required 134 MB so I don’t see the point why the update shouldn’t work.

BTW, the very same kernel update was successfully finished on my regular openSUSE 12.2 .

Any tips what I can do?

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It seems like several people have reported a problem with this kernel update, but not everyone got it. I also note that the servers were almost unreachable just before the latest openSUSE 12.3 RC-1 was released and they have been pretty busy ever since. That just means its possible an aborted or corrupted download may have occurred. When I saw how busy it was, I just waited another day before doing any system updates and apper is disabled on my PC. Why not open up a terminal session and try a couple of commands that we would like to see posted here using the advanced forum message editor and placed indies of a code # tagged field.

sudo /usr/sbin/fdisk -l

and

free

This will be good for starters. I assume that your previous kernel is still working?

Thank You,

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Hi there!

OK, please see below the results of the codes. BTW, my Tumbleweed is installed on a VM with 8 GB total space.

Disk /dev/sda: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders, total 16777216 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000008c4

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048     4208639     2103296   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2   *     4208640    14698495     5244928   83  Linux
/dev/sda3        14698496    16777215     1039360   83  Linux

Disk /dev/mapper/cr_home: 1062 MB, 1062207488 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 129 cylinders, total 2074624 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

and

total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1537112    1289560     247552          0      43044     620052
-/+ buffers/cache:     626464     910648
Swap:      2103292          0    2103292

Yes, the previous kernel works perfectly. I just cannot upgrade to the new one.

Hope this information is helpful.

Thanks!

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On 2013-02-11 22:26, dank245 wrote:
> OK, please see below the results of the codes. BTW, my Tumbleweed is
> installed on a VM with 8 GB total space.

Watch in a terminal how disk free space varies while you try the update.

Hint 1: use ‘watch’ and ‘df’.
Hint 2: use ‘man’ if you don’t know how to do the above.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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I’ve been able to upgrade, but it doesn’t work!
The system does not boot with the new one.
I have to run the older

3.4.11-2.16-desktop
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Sorry for the previous post. :shame:
I was in a hurry :stuck_out_tongue: and forgot to rebuild the module for the Nvidia card …
Now works like a charm!

# uname -r
3.4.28-2.20-desktop
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A 8.6 GB hard drive is kind of small these days so we need to see the df terminal command:

df

And you appear to be running out of memory, both memory and swap space. The df command might tell us if you are out of everything.

Thank You,

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Yeah, you are absolutely right. 8.6 GB is too small, I am running out of memory and this far too small VM test environment made me a lot of trouble.

Anyway, I just installed and configured a 20 GB openSUSE TW test environment and, lá voilá, the kernel upgrade worked out perfectly. No complaints at all!

Thanks for your advices…

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Well perhaps 20 GB will keep you running longer. Let us know if you need any more help then.

Thank You,