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 mount, > and that I missed it in testing. A workaround is: > > 1. Boot into single user node. > 2. run: /sbin/service network start > 3. run: yum -y update filesystem > > If your system emitted the warning, but did not 'bail', it is > safe to retieve the rpm locally, and to run: > > # rpm -Uvh filesystem*rpm --force > > as there are no scripts in play: > > [herr...@centos-5 ~]$ sudo rpm -q --scripts filesystem > [herr...@centos-5 ~]$ > > The cause is the NFS root_squash being in effect when a NFS > overmount is on a mountpoint, it seems. /home happens to > express it > > 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. Is this the sort of situation you mean?
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