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@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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