Here is the error message :
[root@h2g2w dnf]# dnf update [Errno 28] No space left on device: '/var/cache/dnf/metadata_lock.pid' [root@h2g2w dnf]# here are partitions informations :
[root@h2g2w dnf]# df -h | sort -nk5 devtmpfs 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /dev Sys. de fichiers Taille Utilisé Dispo Uti% Monté sur tmpfs 1,6G 0 1,6G 0% /run/user/0 tmpfs 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/VGSYS-tmp 4,4G 14M 4,2G 1% /tmp /dev/mapper/VGSYS-yum 3,9G 17M 3,7G 1% /var/lib/yum tmpfs 1,6G 116K 1,6G 1% /run/user/1000 tmpfs 7,8G 1,8M 7,8G 1% /run tmpfs 7,8G 52M 7,8G 1% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/VGSYS-dnf 3,9G 63M 3,6G 2% /var/lib/dnf /dev/mapper/VGSYS-docker 20G 625M 18G 4% /var/lib/docker /dev/mapper/VGSYS-games 506M 41M 466M 8% /usr/games /dev/mapper/VGSYS-log 4,4G 651M 3,6G 16% /var/log /dev/mapper/VGSYS-var 7,4G 3,5G 3,6G 50% /var /dev/mapper/VGSYS-psql 240M 140M 84M 63% /var/lib/pgsql /dev/mapper/VGSYS-bckp 170G 112G 59G 66% /home/backup /dev/mapper/VGSYS-opt 34G 21G 12G 66% /opt /dev/mapper/VGSYS-usr 13G 8,2G 4,0G 68% /usr /dev/mapper/VGSYS-root 1,5G 962M 424M 70% / /dev/mapper/VGSYS-timeshiftbackups 123G 85G 32G 73% /run/media/root/ece7ac25-cd58-4f61-a201-09849ea3a81f /dev/mapper/VGSYS-share 13G 9,2G 3,0G 76% /usr/share /dev/sda1 248M 186M 50M 80% /boot /dev/mapper/vgf-francois 155G 142G 4,7G 97% /home/francois [root@h2g2w dnf]# so it cannot be a space issue ; so I checked the specific one :
[root@h2g2w dnf]# df -h . Sys. de fichiers Taille Utilisé Dispo Uti% Monté sur /dev/mapper/VGSYS-var 7,4G 3,5G 3,6G 50% /var [root@h2g2w dnf]# there are not openned file here :
root@h2g2w dnf]# lsof | grep /var/cache/dnf/metadata_lock.pid [root@h2g2w dnf]# so what to do then ? is it safe to clean metadata & retry ?
