Re: fatal rpm/cpio error

[rdieter at math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)]

Akop Pogosian wrote:
> How am I supposed to deal with this error?
> 
> # rpm -Uvh filesystem-2.2.1-3.centos.1.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
>    1:filesystem             ########################################### 
> [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /home: cpio: chown failed - 
> Operation not permitted
> # rpm -q filesystem
> package filesystem is not installed
> # ls -dlL /home
> drwxr-xr-x  301 root     root         8192 Nov  2 18:25 /home
> 
> /home mounted from NFS server.

You need to allow root acess to the NFS share (ie, export with the 
no_root_squash option).

Or don't NFS mount /home.

-- Rex