Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 54878
filesystem update RPM fails to install cleanly
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:23:56 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-6 i686) Description of problem: When attempting to install the updated filesystem RPM (filesystem-2.1.0-2.1.noarch.rpm) currently available via RHN on a system where /home is a remote filesystem mounted via NFS, the RPM fails to install cleanly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure a Red Hat Linux 7.1 system where /home is a remote filesystem mounted via NFS. 2. As root, attempt to apply the RPM filesystem-2.1.0-2.1.noarch.rpm . Actual Results: The error produced is: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /home: cpio: chown failed - Operation not permitted Expected Results: The RPM should apply cleanly. If necessary, steps to umount the filesystem, make necessary changes, and then remote it again, should be taken. A manual work around is to manually umount such filesystems before installing the RPM. Additional info: The permissions on /home are: drwxr-xr-x Owner and group are root. The RPM was applied already using the above work around.
This is not something that can really be fixed in the context of this particular RPM; checking all filesystems and trying to figure out which to umount is way too much hackage for a %pre/%post. You might try setting your netsharedpath in RPM.
I received a similar error, however, this was on /usr/lib/X11 unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/X11: cpio: unlink failed - Is a directory We don't have X installed on this box, just Xfree86-libs ls -ld /usr/lib/X11 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 17 13:12 /usr/lib/X11/ ls-l /usr/lib/X11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 17 13:12 app-defaults
What package owns /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults (or the files under it?)
Its a third party rpm, legato networker. Specifically, lgtoclnt-6.1-1 If its their problem and not yours, what do we need to tell legato to do?
This problem is especially nasty in that, if one takes one proposed workaround and applies the filesystem rpm update with "--justdb", a subsequent boot with a modern kernel can hang (failing root pivot). The "/initrd" new top level directory is now essential.
As for legato, tell them to not package something under /usr/lib/X11; have them package it with it as the standard /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 Does the netsharedpath setting not work?
see also bug 54973
This is not a Red Hat issue, and requiring the /initrd directory to be present is not a bug.