Why does upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to 7 fail with error "IOError [Errno 28] No space left on device" ?
Issue
- Upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 to 7.3 fail with the traceback as follows.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/redhat-upgrade-tool", line 432, in <module>
main(args)
File "/usr/bin/redhat-upgrade-tool", line 299, in main
kernel, initrd = f.download_boot_images() # TODO: force arch?
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/redhat_upgrade_tool/download.py", line 448, in download_boot_images
copy2(initrd, initrdpath)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 95, in copy2
copyfile(src, dst)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 52, in copyfile
copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 31, in copyfileobj
fdst.write(buf)
IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9
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