[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

[Scott Silva]

on 4-2-2009 2:00 PM Anne Wilson spake the following:
> On Thursday 02 April 2009 21:40:59 R P Herrold wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>>> I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the
>>> filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an
>>> NFS filesystem.
>> I confirm this is present in 5.3 where /home is an NFS mount,
>> and that I missed it in testing.  A workaround is:
>>
>> 1. Boot into single user node.
>> 2. run: /sbin/service network start
>> 3. run: yum -y update filesystem
>>
>> If your system emitted the warning, but did not 'bail', it is
>> safe to retieve the rpm locally, and to run:
>>
>> # rpm -Uvh filesystem*rpm --force
>>
>> as there are no scripts in play:
>>
>> [herrold at centos-5 ~]$ sudo rpm -q --scripts filesystem
>> [herrold at centos-5 ~]$
>>
>> The cause is the NFS root_squash being in effect when a NFS
>> overmount is on a mountpoint, it seems.  /home happens to
>> express it
>>
>> It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted
>> /home left.
>>
> I have /home exported and ran the upgrade from this laptop over the network, 
> where that directory is mounted and displayed in a folderview under KDE4.  I 
> had no problems whatsoever.  Is this the sort of situation you mean?
> 
> Anne

The way I read it was their /home was mounted on NFS, not just exported.

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