[CentOS] Unpacking of archive failed??

[Joshua Gimer]

MAKEDEV is a shell script that is actually in /sbin that is used to make new
device files. The file in  /dev is a symbolic link to the file in /sbin. You
might want to delete the sym link in /etc and cp the script from /sbin. Then
try yum update again.

On 5/23/06, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
>
> 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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> Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
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Thx
Joshua Gimer
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