[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted
R P Herrold
herrold at centos.org
Thu Apr 2 20:40:59 UTC 2009
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 at centos-5 ~]$ sudo rpm -q --scripts filesystem
[herrold at 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
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