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Bug 76029 - /var/mail mount causes problems
/var/mail mount causes problems
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Jeff Johnson
Mike McLean
triage|leonardjo|closed|notabug
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Reported: 2002-10-15 17:57 EDT by Petri T. Koistinen
Modified: 2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-04-17 17:00:35 EDT
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Description Petri T. Koistinen 2002-10-15 17:57:21 EDT 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-14 i686)

Description of problem:
[root@linuxtest pkoistin]# /usr/sbin/up2date -u
[...]
xinetd-2.3.9-0.73.i386.rpm: ########################## Done.                   
filesystem-2.1.6-2.noarch.r ########################## Done.                   
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

Installing...
   1:filesystem             error: unpacking of archive failed on file
/var/mail: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
There was a fatal RPM install error. The message was:
There was a rpm unpack error  installing the package: filesystem-2.1.6-2
[root@linuxtest var]# df -H
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ida/c0d0p2        15G  6.7G  7.6G  47% /
/dev/ida/c0d0p1        48M   15M   31M  33% /boot
/dev/ida/c0d1p2        32G   25G  6.0G  80% /home
none                   65M     0   64M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/ida/c0d0p3       720M   17M  666M   3% /tmp
/dev/ida/c0d1p1       4.1G   34M  3.8G   1% /var/mail
[root@linuxtest var]# 



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /usr/sbin/up2date -u
	

Additional info:
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-10-16 15:46:04 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75343 ***
Comment 2 Petri T. Koistinen 2002-10-19 13:42:33 EDT 
This is rpm bug.
Comment 3 Leonard den Ottolander 2004-04-17 17:00:07 EDT 
/var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail. If you mount a file system
under /var/mail instead of /var/spool/mail of course the copying of
the symlink will fail.

Closing NOTABUG. (Not sure what happened with comment #1 ...)
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