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@centos-5 ~]$ sudo rpm -q --scripts filesystem [herrold@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.
-- Russ herrold