I believe the filesystem RPM basically owns all the main directories on the system. One of them being /media. I suspect you have something mounted on /media, and since installing filesystem will try to create /media, that results in an error it wasn't expecting.

can you umount /media and try again? I think that would allow 'filesystem' to complete its install process....

-Bond

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Noobadmin Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:45 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Update update failed on filesystem-2.4.0-3.el5.x86_64

I was doing a upgrade of an existing machine from 5.4 to 5.5. Everything else worked except for this rpm filesystem-2.4.0-3.el5.x86_64

It seems that it's trying to unpack the file into the CentOS DVD mount point

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Error unpacking rpm package filesystem-2.4.0-3.el5.x86_64 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /media: cpio: lsetfilecon

Would it be safe to manually download the rpm then install it locally, or would that not work either? I haven't restart the machine because I'm concerned that not updating this file could mean the filesystem becomes inaccessible. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos