Thanks for the hint, but still no luck: [root at hostname ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors [root at hostname ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Determining fastest mirrors * addons: mirror.netcologne.de * atomic: www4.atomicorp.com * base: mirror.netcologne.de * centosplus: mirror.netcologne.de * extras: mirror.netcologne.de * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de * updates: mirror.netcologne.de addons | 951 B 00:00 addons/primary | 201 B 00:00 atomic | 1.9 kB 00:00 atomic/primary_db | 304 kB 00:00 base | 2.1 kB 00:00 base/primary_db | 1.6 MB 00:00 centosplus | 951 B 00:00 centosplus/primary | 157 kB 00:00 centosplus 183/183 extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 extras/primary | 107 kB 00:00 extras 325/325 rpmforge | 1.1 kB 00:00 rpmforge/primary | 3.6 MB 00:00 rpmforge 10064/10064 updates | 1.9 kB 00:00 updates/primary_db | 459 kB 00:00 utterramblings | 951 B 00:00 utterramblings/primary | 23 kB 00:00 utterramblings 69/69 Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Plus Finished Reducing CentOS-5 - Plus to included packages only Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates Finished 556 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package util-linux.i386 0:2.13-0.52.el5_4.1 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) for package: util-linux --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) for package: util-linux --> Processing Dependency: rtld(GNU_HASH) for package: util-linux --> Processing Dependency: libutil.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) for package: util-linux --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) for package: util-linux --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6 for package: util-linux --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) for package: util-linux --> Processing Dependency: libcrypt.so.1 for package: util-linux --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) for package: util-linux --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) for package: util-linux --> Processing Dependency: libutil.so.1 for package: util-linux --> Running transaction check ---> Package glibc.i686 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-42.el5_4.3 for package: glibc --> Running transaction check ---> Package glibc-common.i386 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved =================================================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size =================================================================================================================================================================================== Updating: util-linux i386 2.13-0.52.el5_4.1 updates 1.8 M Installing for dependencies: glibc i686 2.5-42.el5_4.3 updates 5.2 M glibc-common i386 2.5-42.el5_4.3 updates 16 M Transaction Summary =================================================================================================================================================================================== Install 2 Package(s) Update 1 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 24 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/3): util-linux-2.13-0.52.el5_4.1.i386.rpm | 1.8 MB 00:00 (2/3): glibc-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i686.rpm | 5.2 MB 00:00 (3/3): glibc-common-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386.rpm | 16 MB 00:02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8.2 MB/s | 24 MB 00:02 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : glibc-common 1/4 Error unpacking rpm package glibc-common-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/i18n: cpio: mkdir Installing : glibc 2/4 Error unpacking rpm package glibc-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i686 warning: /etc/localtime created as /etc/localtime.rpmnew error: unpacking of archive failed on file /lib/i686: cpio: mkdir Updating : util-linux 3/4 Error unpacking rpm package util-linux-2.13-0.52.el5_4.1.i386 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo;4b5e0c03: cpio: mkdir Failed: glibc.i686 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3 glibc-common.i386 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3 util-linux.i386 0:2.13-0.52.el5_4.1 Complete! I am at a loss here. What's wrong? Thanks for any help, Tobias On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:45 AM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Tobias Weisserth > <tobias.weisserth at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Have you tried a 'yum clean all' ? That usually resolves this sort of > issue for me. > > mhr > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100125/484c95a7/attachment-0005.html>