Why the yum update fails with the error 'Error downloading packages Curl error (23) Failed writing received data to disk/application' ?

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Issue

  • The yum update fails and the following error occurs.

    Error: Error downloading packages:
      Curl error (23): Failed writing received data to disk/application for https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel8/8.5/x86_64/baseos/os/Packages/[Failed writing body (536 != 16384)]
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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