Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-12 Thread Theo Band
R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an NFS filesystem. I confirm this is present in 5.3 where /home is an NFS mount, and that I missed it

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 03 April 2009 05:11:15 R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted /home left. I have /home exported and ran the upgrade from this laptop over the network, where that directory is mounted and displayed in

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 03 April 2009 05:11:15 R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted /home left. I have /home exported and ran the upgrade from this laptop over the network, where that directory is mounted and

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Tsai Li Ming wrote: Found this on upstream bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483071 Good catch! Panu Matilainen posted what appears to be the answer, though I haven't tested it yet: To have rpm semi-reasonably deal with NFS-mounts on rpm owned

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I just kicked everyone off, killed all apps with open file descriptors on /home, umounted /home, upgraded the rpm, then re-mounted /home. That worked just fine. I confer 42 geek points on

[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-03 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: The takeaway was that I need to 'test as I do, and do as I test'. My testing regime will have to include 'cloning' a test box, and simply 'moving into it' for an afternoon when doing 'updates' QA testing. I took it for granted that CentOS would be

[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an NFS filesystem. I confirm this is present in 5.3 where /home is an NFS mount, and that I missed it in testing. A workaround is:

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, R P Herrold wrote: It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted /home left. Say it ain't so! -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 02 April 2009 21:40:59 R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an NFS filesystem. I confirm this is present in 5.3 where /home is an NFS

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Olaf Mueller
Paul Heinlein wrote: I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an NFS filesystem. No problem here, /home is exported as nfs4 with sec=kerb5. regards Olaf ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Hywel Richards
Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, R P Herrold wrote: It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted /home left. Say it ain't so! It ain't so. I've got 7 machines here with NFSed /home (and the same problem with the filesystem rpm). Should I implement the

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Hywel Richards wrote: It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted /home left. Say it ain't so! It ain't so. :-) I've got 7 machines here with NFSed /home (and the same problem with the filesystem rpm). Should I implement the workaround suggested by

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-2-2009 2:00 PM Anne Wilson spake the following: On Thursday 02 April 2009 21:40:59 R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an NFS filesystem. I

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Tsai Li Ming
Scott Silva wrote: on 4-2-2009 2:00 PM Anne Wilson spake the following: On Thursday 02 April 2009 21:40:59 R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an NFS

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Michael A. Peters
Tsai Li Ming wrote: Scott Silva wrote: on 4-2-2009 2:00 PM Anne Wilson spake the following: On Thursday 02 April 2009 21:40:59 R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade

[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted /home left. I have /home exported and ran the upgrade from this laptop over the network, where that directory is mounted and displayed in a folderview under KDE4. I had no problems whatsoever.

[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I just kicked everyone off, killed all apps with open file descriptors on /home, umounted /home, upgraded the rpm, then re-mounted /home. That worked just fine. I confer 42 geek points on Paul -- hope that's enough to buy armor to protect him from the

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Tsai Li Ming
R P Herrold wrote: Thank you for the confirmation, I have not had a chance to file in the centos tracker yet, and hope to get it filed tomorrow's business hours. Similarly I have not checked upstream's tracker yet. If needee, I'll file there as well, but I cannot imagine it will be

[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Olaf Mueller wrote: Paul Heinlein wrote: I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an NFS filesystem. No problem here, /home is exported as nfs4 with sec=kerb5. As noted later, the problem is

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Les Mikesell
R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I just kicked everyone off, killed all apps with open file descriptors on /home, umounted /home, upgraded the rpm, then re-mounted /home. That worked just fine. I confer 42 geek points on Paul -- hope that's enough to buy armor

[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Hywel Richards wrote: I've got 7 machines here with NFSed /home (and the same problem with the filesystem rpm). Should I implement the workaround suggested by Russ for each machine, or will a fixed rpm come along eventually? (I'm not impatient!) Thank you for the

[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote: My guess is a scriptlet is failing - quite possibly because an SELinux chcon command fails in those conditions. They probably need to change the chcon portion of the scriptlet to add a ||: after the command so it doesn't bomb out. Guessing is fun

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Michael A. Peters
R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote: My guess is a scriptlet is failing - quite possibly because an SELinux chcon command fails in those conditions. They probably need to change the chcon portion of the scriptlet to add a ||: after the command so it doesn't bomb

[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-01 Thread Paul Heinlein
I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an NFS filesystem. I sorta-kinda remember this when going from 5.1 to 5.2, but that memory is hazy. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/