[CentOS] Unpacking of archive failed??
Joshua Gimer
jgimer at gmail.comWed May 24 13:51:20 UTC 2006
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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 at 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. > > -- > Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Thx Joshua Gimer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060524/01ac1b8b/attachment-0001.html>
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