Bug 641936

Summary:	zypper does not handle disk full condition gracefully
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4	Reporter:	Cristian Rodriguez <crrodriguez>
Component:	libzypp	Assignee:	E-mail List <zypp-maintainers>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	bwiedemann, crrodriguez, dheidler
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	openSUSE 11.3
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Found By:	Development	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	No
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Cristian Rodriguez 2010-09-27 04:31:10 UTC

How to reproduce:

# zypper -R /dev/full in top 

Expected result:
Target initialization failed:
Hard disk Full

Actual result:
Target initialization failed:
Rpm Exception

User need a clue about what's going on.

Comment 1 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-02-20 21:21:24 UTC

zypper -R /dev/full in top
still does return "Rpm Exception" on current Factory.

Comment 2 Dominik Heidler 2011-04-18 07:49:05 UTC

The -R option describes the root directory, but /dev/full is a device.

zypper would try to find the rpm database at /dev/full/var/lib/rpm which results in an rpm exception.

Comment 3 Dominik Heidler 2011-04-26 15:24:04 UTC

This is a duplicate of bnc#299813

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 299813 ***