Bug 210945
| Summary: | yum update gives error: unpacking of archive failed on file /home: cpio: chown | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Nurdin Premji <npremji> |
| Component: | filesystem | Assignee: | Phil Knirsch <pknirsch> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | jonstanley, pmatilai, rvokal, tim |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-05-15 04:08:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Nurdin Premji
2006-10-16 17:25:58 UTC
That looks like a corrupted or truncated binary rpm package for filesystem. Please verify if the size and data of that rpm is correct. Thanks, Read ya, Phil How do I do this? Typically a rpm -qpVa foo.rpm works to list any problems. Does this still happen? Read ya, Phil PS: Might have been a broken tree at that day as well. This happens our our machines as well. We have /home mounted via NFS from our central file server. I can upgrade the package if I unmount /home beforehand. Afterwards I can mount it again. This happens at least on F8 and rawhide. Ah, i think i finally know where the problem comes from: NFS is probably mounted RW but without the no_root_squash option. This will lead to rpm failing when trying to "install" /home with proper permissions and user/group, see the cpio: chown error message. So this is basically a configuration problem where rpm and/or the package filesystem can't do much about. Read ya, Phil It's mounted with no_root_squash indeed. A way that the cpio error does not fail the installation would already be helpful, like giving a warning but not stopping the installation. Not sure if thats already possible at all with RPM as it generally wants to install every file properly, including user/group and permissions and gets rather unhappy if it can't for some reason. I'm CC'ing Panu Matilainen on this bug now as he's our RPM expert and maintainer, maybe he has an idea. Read ya, Phil You can tell rpm about NFS paths with %_netsharedpath macro, something like this should avoid the issue: echo "%_netsharedpath /home" >> /etc/rpm/macros Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Closing NOTABUG - This is expected behavior, and Panu provided a workaround a few months back. |