Re: [CentOS] Unpacking of archive failed??

[Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

M. Fioretti wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have just been given a VPS with a fresh, minimal Centos 4.2
> installation. When I ran "yum update" it went on updating some tenths
> of packages and signalled this error:
> 
>   Updating  : perl                         ####################### [24/88]
>   Updating  : rpm-python                   ####################### [25/88]
>   Updating  : MAKEDEV                      ####################### [26/88]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /dev/MAKEDEV: cpio: rename
>   Updating  : iputils                      ####################### [27/88]
>   Updating  : ruby                         ####################### [28/88]
> 
> What does this exactly mean, and what is the safe/right thing to do?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 	Marco
> 

go talk to the people who gave you the VPS, its not setup properly /
correctly.

this is not a centos issue.

-- 
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
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