on 4-2-2009 2:00 PM Anne Wilson spake the following: > 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 The way I read it was their /home was mounted on NFS, not just exported. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090402/1d46d672/attachment-0005.sig>