[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 2 21:00:02 UTC 2009


On Thursday 02 April 2009 21:40:59 R P Herrold wrote:
> 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.
>
I have /home exported and ran the upgrade from this laptop over the network, 
where that directory is mounted and displayed in a folderview under KDE4.  I 
had no problems whatsoever.  Is this the sort of situation you mean?

Anne
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