Todays zypper dup - install of i686 kernel fails

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Hi!

On this older Atom board

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/553789-Install-headless-via-serial-console-only-How

todays zypper dup ended with an error while trying to install kernel 5.12


sudo zypper dup

...

( 71/104) Installing: kernel-pae-5.12.4-1.1.i686 ........................................[error]
Installation of kernel-pae-5.12.4-1.1.i686 failed:
Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command exited with status 1.
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): r
( 71/104) Installing: kernel-pae-5.12.4-1.1.i686 ........................................[error]
Installation of kernel-pae-5.12.4-1.1.i686 failed:
Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command exited with status 1.
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): r
( 71/104) Installing: kernel-pae-5.12.4-1.1.i686 ........................................[error]
Installation of kernel-pae-5.12.4-1.1.i686 failed:
Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command exited with status 1.
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a):

Any hint what’s going wrong?

2

That did install without problems here.

3

Hmmm, I think I see the problem

df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs        991M     0  991M   0% /dev
tmpfs           998M     0  998M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           400M  836K  399M   1% /run
/dev/sda1       2.9G  2.6G  211M  93% /
tmpfs           998M     0  998M   0% /tmp
tmpfs           200M     0  200M   0% /run/user/1000

Have to get rid of some stuff, I guess…

4 
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 3.74 GiB, 4017807360 bytes, 7847280 sectors
Disk model: CF 4GB          
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x62696779

Device     Boot   Start     End Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *       2048 6293503 6291456     3G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       6293504 7847279 1553776 758.7M 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Is it possible to shrink swap while running? Guess not… But is it safe to shutdown the machine now with half of the updates installed?

5

swapoff, repartition, swapon

6

OK

swapoff -a

then deleting swap in Yast, increasing / and creating a smaller swap followed by

swapon

and the zypper dup succeeded. :smiley:

fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 3.74 GiB, 4017807360 bytes, 7847280 sectors
Disk model: CF 4GB          
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x62696779

Device     Boot   Start     End Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *       2048 7342079 7340032   3.5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       7342080 7847279  505200 246.7M 82 Linux swap / Solaris