It may be that you have a bad bash RPM from somewhere. I believe that the cpio command works directly on the package so you could try with cpio on the command line to see if it will open the RPM. I suspect that it won't be able to. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> wrote: > > Hi, > > For the last few updates I'm having a yum problem. > > # yum update > > gives the following error for e.g. > > Running transaction > Updating : bash-4.2.45-5.el7_0.2.x86_64 1/10 > Error unpacking rpm package bash-4.2.45-5.el7_0.2.x86_64 > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/alias;5423b9bc: > cpio: open > > > The same problem happens if I try to use rpm for the update so it > appears to be an rpm problem rather than a yum one. > > I've rebuilt the rpm databases successfully but tthe problem persists. > > Regards, > > Tony > > -- > Linux nogs.tonyshome.ie 2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 9 > 21:36:05 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >