Error message during "yum update"

[Paul Howarth]

Joachim Backes wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:30 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>Joachim Backes wrote:
>>
>>>tank you for your answer, but did not help (see error msg below): nmh
>>>was installed, but with error:
>>
>>...
>>
>>
>>>Running Transaction
>>>  Installing: nmh                          #########################
>>>[1/1]
>>>error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/install-mh;43709782:
>>>cpio: link
>>>
>>>Installed: nmh.i386 0:1.1-10.fc4
>>>Complete!
>>
>>Please post the output of:
>>
>>$ rpm -qlv nmh | grep bin
>>$ ls -ld /usr/bin/install*
>>
> 
> 
> root at xxxxx [~]: rpm -qlv nmh | grep bin
> root at xxxxx [~]:  ls -ld /usr/bin/install*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 61840 Jul 25 17:39 /usr/bin/install
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4374 Sep 22  2004 /usr/bin/install-catalog

Do you have /usr/bin and /usr/lib/nmh on different partitions?

$ df /usr/bin /usr/lib/nmh

The package has /usr/bin/install-mh & /usr/lib/nmh/install-mh hardlinked 
to each other, which won't work if the directories are on different 
partitions.

This is arguably a packaging error, though very few people would come 
across it.

Paul.