Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76029
/var/mail mount causes problems
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:30 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: 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]# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /usr/sbin/up2date -u Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75343 ***
This is rpm bug.
/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 ...)