[CentOS] Unpacking of archive failed??
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Wed May 24 00:54:46 UTC 2006
M. Fioretti wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have just been given a VPS with a fresh, minimal Centos 4.2
> installation. When I ran "yum update" it went on updating some tenths
> of packages and signalled this error:
>
> Updating : perl ####################### [24/88]
> Updating : rpm-python ####################### [25/88]
> Updating : MAKEDEV ####################### [26/88]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /dev/MAKEDEV: cpio: rename
> Updating : iputils ####################### [27/88]
> Updating : ruby ####################### [28/88]
>
> What does this exactly mean, and what is the safe/right thing to do?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marco
>
go talk to the people who gave you the VPS, its not setup properly /
correctly.
this is not a centos issue.
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