From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: updating SysVinit with "rpm -Uvh" fails with an error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): SysVinit-2.85-34 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download SysVinit-2.85-34.i386.rpm 2. run "rpm -Uvh SysVinit-2.85-34.i386.rpm" Actual Results: The installation fails with the following error message: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /dev/initctl: cpio: lsetfilecon failed - Permission denied Expected Results: SysVinit should install. Additional info: this may be due to an unclean previous installation or update of SysVinit, since "rpm -q SysVinit" give no results, but the files (like /sbin/shutdown) are there, with no ownership by a package.
This looks like a very confused install. You probably have bad policy and need to relabel. You can try the following to cleanup setenforce 0 install system-config-targeted touch /.autorelabel reboot That should fix your labeling.