Bill - Thank you! My boot partition does not have any space available. Now there are what appears to be many files in there that are not needed, *but* with my sparse knowledge, I am reluctant to start erasing them. Here is a sample: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1310809 Mar 17 2008 initrd-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1296959 Mar 17 2008 initrd-2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1310005 Dec 18 2007 initrd-2.6.9-67.EL.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1296326 Dec 18 2007 initrd-2.6.9-67.ELsmp.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 759989 Feb 3 2008 System.map-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 776963 Feb 3 2008 System.map-2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 760171 Mar 15 2008 System.map-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 777145 Mar 15 2008 System.map-2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 759989 Nov 16 2007 System.map-2.6.9-67.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 776963 Nov 16 2007 System.map-2.6.9-67.ELsmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1518757 Feb 3 2008 vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1458782 Feb 3 2008 vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1518936 Mar 15 2008 vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1459052 Mar 15 2008 vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1518693 Nov 16 2007 vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1458902 Nov 16 2007 vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.ELsmp I would assume that the older vmlinuz files can be removed as well as the other old files. Todd William L. Maltby wrote: > 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 > -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.toddcary.com/aristephotography/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090304/37238b7d/attachment-0005.html>