The host returns esxupdate error code:12. cannot read or write to the database. check the update manager log files and esxupdate log files for more details.

When remmidate you get this error.

I installed the patches that I can stage.

Stuck on

Next step:

esxcli network firewall unload
esxcli software vib install -v http://vum.se:9084/vum/repository/hostupdate/vmw/vib20/tools-light/VMware_locker_tools-light_6.5.0-1.33.7273056.vib
[DatabaseIOError]
Failed to create temporary DB dir: [Errno 28] No space left on device: ‘/locker/packages/var/db/locker/profiles.new’
filename = /locker/packages/var/db/locker
Please refer to the log file for more details

In this case there was a dump file that took to much space

[root@esx:/vmfs/volumes/525db6f6-008cb4a9-cc48-7cad746ede0f/var] cd core/
[root@esx:/vmfs/volumes/525db6f6-008cb4a9-cc48-7cad746ede0f/var/core] ls
vpxa-worker-zdump.000

rm vpxa-worker-zdump.000

The it went fine