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CentOS Linux – error updating rpm
1July 28, 2010
by Michael McNamara in Linux
I came across an interesting problem recently with the CentOS Linux server I use to host this blog. I encountered a problem when upgrading from CentOS 5.4 to 5.5. I had performed this upgrade on a fair number of physical servers without issue but this was the first time I was upgrading a XEN based VPS running CentOS.
Every package upgraded without an issue expect for rpm itself which error-ed out as detailed below;
[root@michaelfmcnamara sysconfig]# yum update rpm Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: yum.singlehop.com * base: yum.singlehop.com * extras: mirror.raystedman.net * updates: mirror.skiplink.com Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package rpm.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ====================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ====================================================================================================================== Updating: rpm i386 4.4.2.3-18.el5 base 1.2 M Transaction Summary ====================================================================================================================== Install 0 Package(s) Upgrade 1 Package(s) Total download size: 1.2 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm | 1.2 MB 00:00 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Updating :rpm 1/2 Error unpacking rpm package rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/cron.daily/rpm: cpio: rename Failed: rpm.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 Complete!
So what was wrong with /etc/cron.daily/rpm that the package was failing to install.
Wouldn’t you know that the immutable attribute had been set on the file?
[root@michaelfmcnamara ~]# lsattr /etc/cron.daily/rpm ----i-------- /etc/cron.daily/rpm
Let’s remove that attribute;
root@michaelfmcnamara ~]# chattr -i /etc/cron.daily/rpm
With that fixed let’s try running that update again;
[root@michaelfmcnamara cron.daily]# yum update rpm Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors * addons: yum.singlehop.com * base: yum.singlehop.com * extras: mirror.raystedman.net * updates: mirrors.netdna.com Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package rpm.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ====================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ====================================================================================================================== Updating: rpm i386 4.4.2.3-18.el5 base 1.2 M Transaction Summary ====================================================================================================================== Install 0 Package(s) Upgrade 1 Package(s) Total download size: 1.2 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm | 1.2 MB 00:00 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Updating : rpm 1/2 Cleanup : rpm 2/2 Updated: rpm.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 Complete!
Success!
