Error message "No enough disk space to hold image. Failed to load into software manager." seen when downloading PAN OS on a Panorama VM
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Created On 12/05/25 16:53 PM - Last Modified 03/25/26 00:55 AM
Symptom
- Panorama hosted in a VM environment.
- When PAN OS image is downloaded, it fails with the following error.
Successfully downloaded
Software version: 11.2.0
Preloading into software manager
Failed to create required free space. Free space: 2578 MB, Required space: 2764 MB
No enough disk space to hold image
Failed to load into software manager. Please retry.
Post processing failed. Please retry.
Environment
- Panorama hosted in VM
- Software Upgrade
Cause
Storage in the /opt/panrepo is not enough to hold the new PAN OS image.
Resolution
- Confirm the issue in the configd.log by using the command "tail follow yes mp-log configd.log"
admin@Panorama(primary-active)> tail follow yes mp-log configd.log
+1100 Warning: ha_cfg_trans_post_start(ha_cfg.c:2285): Unable to complete p2 for swimages, continuing on without error
+1100 Preloading into software manager
+1100 Error: pan_mgmtop_post_process_swimage(pan_ops_common.c:15016): failed to load /opt/pancfg/mgmt/sw-images/Panorama_pc-11.2.0 into swm
+1100 Error: pan_mgmtop_post_process_swimage(pan_ops_common.c:15017): Failed to create required free space. Free space: 2568 MB, Required space: 2764 MB
No enough disk space to hold image
+1100 Error: pan_mgmtop_post_process_swimage(pan_ops_common.c:15018): Failed to load into software manager. Please retry.
- The message "failed to load /opt/pancfg/mgmt/sw-images/" is mapped to /opt/panrepo.
- Once confirmed, check the space in the /opt/panrepo directory.
admin@Panorama(primary-active)> show system disk-space
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.9G 6.6G 982M 88% /
none 32G 76K 32G 1% /dev
/dev/nvme0n1p5 24G 18G 5.1G 78% /opt/pancfg
/dev/nvme0n1p6 5.9G 3.1G 2.6G 55% /opt/panrepo <<< Free space: 2568 MB
tmpfs 32G 2.4G 29G 8% /dev/shm
tmpfs 12M 44K 12M 1% /opt/pancfg/mgmt/ssl/private
cgroup_root 32G 0 32G 0% /cgroup
/dev/nvme0n1p8 32G 23G 7.6G 75% /opt/panlogs
/dev/loop0 13G 2.9G 8.9G 25% /opt/mongobuffer
- If the /opt/panrepo directory doesn't have enough space, then delete the old PAN OS images, content files and the plugins as well, from the GUI or CLI. Refer How to Delete Unnecessary Downloaded Software Versions.
- This will reduce the utilized storage size in the /opt/panrepo directory, so that when the image is downloaded, the panrepo directory will have enough space to hold the new images.
Additional Information
In the example above:
- The current free space: 2568 MB and the required space: 2764 MB.
- The need is to have extra 196MB or slightly above it (2764-2568) 196MB
- Select files and delete to get the required amount of storage.