On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 11:38 -0800, Todd Cary wrote: > When doing my updates, I got this message: > > error: unpacking of archive failed on > file /boot/System.map-2.6.9-78.0. > 13.EL;49a > > Unfortunately, I installed Centos 4 about two years ago on my server > that sits in the corner and does it's job of faithfully providing > services without me touching it except to run a backup script and do a > YUM update every week so. The result is that I have forgotten my > Linux know how! Out of space? do a df and df -i on the file system and see if the space looks tight. If so, cleaning out some cruft might help. Also, if /boot is mounted read-only I guess that could cause it. > > > Help! > > Todd > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill