Hi everybody,<div><br></div><div>I'm having difficulties updating dhclient as outlined below by using either yum or rpm. I'm running CentOS on a virtual guest provided by a provider.<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:centos-announce-request@centos.org">centos-announce-request@centos.org</a>></span> wrote:<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2010:0042<br>
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Upstream details at : <a href="https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0042.html" target="_blank">https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0042.html</a><br>
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The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently<br>
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename )<br>
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i386:<br>
75c3d86012ed835fdd8e6adf4a7b46d5 dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm<br>
f8e9e8c6db0cfab67119d5dd22b207f1 dhcp-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm<br>
10065731e1acbad938b60a01a2d4437c dhcp-devel-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm<br>
9c40a772d00bce2a90a28ed07341e98c libdhcp4client-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm<br>
bbcc62d259d5c4887d23cefba25f35c5 libdhcp4client-devel-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm<br>
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Source:<br>
5c26195f93824372091a9cf3e61abdb3 dhcp-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.src.rpm<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is an outline of what I tried:</div><div><br></div><div>yum update:</div><div><br></div><div>Updating:</div><div> dhclient i386 12:3.0.5-21.el5_4.1 updates 276 k</div>
<div><br></div><div>Transaction Summary</div><div>===================================================================================================================================================================================</div>
<div>Install 0 Package(s) </div><div>Update 1 Package(s) </div><div>Remove 0 Package(s) </div><div><br></div><div>Total download size: 276 k</div><div>Is this ok [y/N]: y</div><div>
Downloading Packages:</div><div>dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm | 276 kB 00:00 </div><div>
Running rpm_check_debug</div><div>Running Transaction Test</div><div>Finished Transaction Test</div><div>Transaction Test Succeeded</div><div>Running Transaction</div><div> Updating : dhclient 1/2 </div>
<div>Error unpacking rpm package 12:dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386</div><div>error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lib/dhclient: cpio: mkdir</div><div><br></div><div>Failed:</div><div> dhclient.i386 12:3.0.5-21.el5_4.1 </div>
<div><br></div><div>Complete!</div><div>[root@vps ~]# wget <a href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm</a></div>
<div>--2010-01-18 21:46:49-- <a href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm</a></div>
<div>Resolving mirror.centos.org... 88.208.217.170</div><div>Connecting to <a href="http://mirror.centos.org">mirror.centos.org</a>|88.208.217.170|:80... connected.</div><div>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK</div>
<div>Length: 282677 (276K) [application/x-rpm]</div><div>Saving to: `dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm'</div><div><br></div><div>100%[=========================================================================================================================================>] 282,677 --.-K/s in 0.1s </div>
<div><br></div><div>2010-01-18 21:46:50 (1.87 MB/s) - `dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm' saved [282677/282677]</div><div><br></div><div>[root@vps ~]# md5sum dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm </div><div>75c3d86012ed835fdd8e6adf4a7b46d5 dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm</div>
<div>[root@vps ~]# rpm -U dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm </div><div>error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lib/dhclient: cpio: mkdir failed - No such file or directory</div><div><br></div><div>What's wrong? I did some other package updates using yum earlier and with the exception of this package it worked.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The filesystem is not full. There's plenty of space. Everything is mounted under /</div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas?</div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Tobias Weisserth</div>
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