Hi Olle, that would explain it - the other system is used to build /usr/local. Is this a bug? I thought it was good practice to limit root write access to NFS shares. [We limit it to build and restore hosts.]
thanks iain -- Iain Morrison IT Manager MRC Epidemiology Unit Institute of Metabolic Science Box 285 Addenbrooke's Hospital Hills Road Cambridge CB2 0QQ Tel 01223 769200 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Olle Eriksson Sent: 24 May 2011 10:17 To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] yum problems - perl Root needs write permissions to /usr/local that it might not have if /usr/local is NFS-mounted -olle On 05/24/2011 11:04 AM, Iain Morrison wrote: > We have a couple of test RHEL 6 systems. One successfully updated to > 6.1, but on the other perl fails to update. > > Any idea what might be wrong/what I can do to fix this? > > thanks > > iain > > # /usr/bin/yum -y update > Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, kabi, presto, > refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, security, tmprepo, > : verify, versionlock > Loading support for Red Hat kernel ABI > Setting up Update Process > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package perl.x86_64 4:5.10.1-115.el6 will be updated > ---> Package perl.x86_64 4:5.10.1-119.el6 will be an update > ---> Package perl-libs.x86_64 4:5.10.1-115.el6 will be updated > ---> Package perl-libs.x86_64 4:5.10.1-119.el6 will be an update > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > > Dependencies Resolved > > ======================================================================== > ========================================== > Package Arch Version > Repository Si > ======================================================================== > ========================================== > Updating: > perl x86_64 4:5.10.1-119.el6 > rhel-x86_64-server-6 10 > perl-libs x86_64 4:5.10.1-119.el6 > rhel-x86_64-server-6 577 > > Transaction Summary > ======================================================================== > ========================================== > Upgrade 2 Package(s) > > Total download size: 11 M > Downloading Packages: > Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata > Processing delta metadata > Package(s) data still to download: 11 M > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------ > Total > 4.5 MB/s | 11 MB 00:02 > Running rpm_check_debug > Running Transaction Test > Transaction Test Succeeded > Running Transaction > Updating : 4:perl-libs-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 > 1 > Error unpacking rpm package 4:perl-libs-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/local/lib64/perl5: cpio: > chown > Updating : 4:perl-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 > 2 > Error unpacking rpm package 4:perl-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/local/share/perl5: cpio: > chown > 4:perl-5.10.1-115.el6.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not! > 4:perl-libs-5.10.1-115.el6.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not! > > Failed: > perl.x86_64 4:5.10.1-119.el6 > perl-libs.x86_64 4:5.10.1-119.el6 > > > _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
