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@xxxxx> 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
>
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