Why does the command 'yum update' fails with the error "Error Downloading Packages: <package>: Insufficient space in download directory" ?

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Issue

  • Why does the command 'yum update'  fails with the error "Error Downloading Packages: <package>: Insufficient space in download directory" ?

  • System is not able to update and found following error in history details of registered system profile from RHN hosted:

    Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: Error Downloading Packages: <package name>: Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/rhel-i386-server-5/packages * free 0 * needed 311 k [[6]]" (code -1)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Network (RHN) hosted

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