Hi everybody, I'm having difficulties updating dhclient as outlined below by using either yum or rpm. I'm running CentOS on a virtual guest provided by a provider. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM, <centos-announce-request at centos.org> wrote: > CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2010:0042 > > Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0042.html > > The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently > syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) > > i386: > 75c3d86012ed835fdd8e6adf4a7b46d5 dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm > f8e9e8c6db0cfab67119d5dd22b207f1 dhcp-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm > 10065731e1acbad938b60a01a2d4437c dhcp-devel-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm > 9c40a772d00bce2a90a28ed07341e98c libdhcp4client-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm > bbcc62d259d5c4887d23cefba25f35c5 > libdhcp4client-devel-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm > > Source: > 5c26195f93824372091a9cf3e61abdb3 dhcp-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.src.rpm > This is an outline of what I tried: yum update: Updating: dhclient i386 12:3.0.5-21.el5_4.1 updates 276 k Transaction Summary =================================================================================================================================================================================== Install 0 Package(s) Update 1 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 276 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm | 276 kB 00:00 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Updating : dhclient 1/2 Error unpacking rpm package 12:dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lib/dhclient: cpio: mkdir Failed: dhclient.i386 12:3.0.5-21.el5_4.1 Complete! [root at vps ~]# wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm --2010-01-18 21:46:49-- http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm Resolving mirror.centos.org... 88.208.217.170 Connecting to mirror.centos.org|88.208.217.170|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 282677 (276K) [application/x-rpm] Saving to: `dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm' 100%[=========================================================================================================================================>] 282,677 --.-K/s in 0.1s 2010-01-18 21:46:50 (1.87 MB/s) - `dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm' saved [282677/282677] [root at vps ~]# md5sum dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm 75c3d86012ed835fdd8e6adf4a7b46d5 dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm [root at vps ~]# rpm -U dhclient-3.0.5-21.el5_4.1.i386.rpm error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lib/dhclient: cpio: mkdir failed - No such file or directory What's wrong? I did some other package updates using yum earlier and with the exception of this package it worked. The filesystem is not full. There's plenty of space. Everything is mounted under / Any ideas? regards, Tobias Weisserth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100118/9888190c/attachment-0005.html>