In this article, I will explain you about the curl error: Failed Writing received data to disk/application on Linux and the steps to solve this error. This error could show due to various reasons. One of the common reason is the disk space utilization which happened with me. I will take you through the detail explanation which I followed to solve this error. Hopefully the same will work for you as well.
Curl error: Failed writing received data to disk/application on Linux
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Last night when i was trying to update my Server, I faced below curl error: Failed writing received data to disk/application on Linux. While looking into this error i thought to put the steps required to solve this issue in an article so that it might help you guys also in case you are also facing the same issue.
(207/285): libxml2-2.9.7-7.el8.x86_64.rpm 1.6 MB/s | 695 kB 00:00 (208/285): libxslt-1.1.32-4.el8.x86_64.rpm 820 kB/s | 249 kB 00:00 (209/285): lshw-B.02.18-23.el8.x86_64.rpm 786 kB/s | 322 kB 00:00 [MIRROR] linux-firmware-20191202-97.gite8a0f4c9.el8.noarch.rpm: Curl error (23): Failed writing received data to disk/application for http://centos.mirrors.estointernet.in/8.2.2004/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/linux-firmware-20191202-97.gite8a0f4c9.el8.noarch.rpm [Failed writing body (4019 != 14280)] [FAILED] linux-firmware-20191202-97.gite8a0f4c9.el8.noarch.rpm: Curl error (23): Failed writing received data to disk/application for http://centos.mirrors.estointernet.in/8.2.2004/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/linux-firmware-20191202-97.gite8a0f4c9.el8.noarch.rpm [Failed writing body (4019 != 14280)] (211-212/285): lvm2-2.03.08-3.el8.x86_64.rpm 67% [=========================================== ] 18 MB/s | 330 MB 00:08 ETA The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction. You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'. Error: Error downloading packages: Curl error (23): Failed writing received data to disk/application for http://centos.mirrors.estointernet.in/8.2.2004/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/linux-firmware-20191202-97.gite8a0f4c9.el8.noarch.rpm [Failed writing body (4019 != 14280)]
NOTE:
root user to run all the below commands.You can use any user with sudo access to run all these commands. For more information Please check Step by Step: How to Add User to Sudoers to provide sudo access to the User.When you encounter above error, the first thing you need to do is to clean up the cached packages by using dnf clean packages command as shown below.
[root@localhost ~]# dnf clean packages 209 files removed
Then you need to check the total disk usage to confirm you have enough space available to install all the updates in your Server. Check DNF Man Page to know more about DNF command.
[root@localhost ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 396M 0 396M 0% /dev tmpfs 411M 0 411M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 411M 5.6M 406M 2% /run tmpfs 411M 0 411M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/centos-root 6.2G 5.2G 20M 100% / /dev/sda1 1014M 162M 853M 16% /boot tmpfs 83M 0 83M 0% /run/user/0
Here my root(/) partition showing 100% utilized so to install any further updates we need to free up some space. After freeing up sufficient space you can again try to run the update using same dnf update -y command as shown below. This time you will see update will be completed successfully.
[root@localhost ~]# dnf update -y Last metadata expiration check: 3:21:00 ago on Thu 08 Oct 2020 02:32:00 PM EDT. Dependencies resolved. ======================================================================================================================================================================== Package Architecture Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================================================================== Installing: kernel-core x86_64 4.18.0-193.19.1.el8_2 BaseOS 28 M Upgrading: alsa-lib x86_64 1.2.1.2-3.el8 AppStream 441 k bind-libs x86_64 32:9.11.13-6.el8_2.1 AppStream 172 k bind-libs-lite x86_64 32:9.11.13-6.el8_2.1 AppStream 1.2 M bind-license noarch 32:9.11.13-6.el8_2.1 AppStream 101 k bind-utils x86_64 32:9.11.13-6.el8_2.1 AppStream 443 k container-selinux noarch 2:2.124.0-1.module_el8.2.0+305+5e198a41 AppStream 47 k containers-common x86_64 1:0.1.40-11.module_el8.2.0+377+92552693 AppStream 50 k fribidi x86_64 1.0.4-8.el8 AppStream 89 k fuse-overlayfs x86_64 0.7.2-5.module_el8.2.0+305+5e198a41 AppStream 60 k git x86_64 2.18.4-2.el8_2 AppStream 186 k git-core x86_64 2.18.4-2.el8_2 AppStream 4.0 M git-core-doc noarch 2.18.4-2.el8_2 AppStream 2.3 M httpd x86_64 2.4.37-21.module_el8.2.0+494+1df74eae AppStream 1.7 M
If you see the same error "Failed writing received data to disk/application on Linux" again then probably there is some issue with that specific package. So you might need to update that package manually by running dnf update curl -y command as in my case. You might get this error "Failed writing received data to disk/application on Linux" with some other package so you need to update that package first and then again run dnf update -y command to check if that solves your issue. Usually these steps are enough to solve this issue. If it still does not have any effect then you can write me in comment box to look into the issue further.
[root@localhost ~]# dnf update curl -y CentOS-8 - AppStream 4.6 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00 CentOS-8 - Base 5.8 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00 CentOS-8 - Extras 1.5 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00 CentOS-8 - PowerTools 5.5 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 14 kB/s | 7.3 kB 00:00 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 14 kB/s | 12 kB 00:00 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 52 kB/s | 8.1 MB 02:39 Google Cloud SDK 250 B/s | 454 B 00:01 RPM Fusion for EL 8 - Free - Updates 5.1 kB/s | 3.7 kB 00:00 Dependencies resolved. ======================================================================================================================================================================== Package Architecture Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================================================================== Upgrading: curl x86_64 7.61.1-12.el8 BaseOS 353 k libcurl x86_64 7.61.1-12.el8 BaseOS 298 k Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================================================================== Upgrade 2 Packages Total download size: 651 k
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