Re: [CentOS] Unpacking of archive failed??

["Joshua Gimer" <jgimer@xxxxxxxxx>]

MAKEDEV is a shell script that is actually in /sbin that is used to make new device files. The file in  /dev is a symbolic link to the file in /sbin. You might want to delete the sym link in /etc and cp the script from /sbin. Then try yum update again.

On 5/23/06, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

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