On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 08:58 -0500, Bob Gustafson wrote: > This is the detail on the MAKEDEV difficulties > > [root hoho2 ~]# yum update MAKEDEV > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > Resolving dependencies > Dependencies resolved > I will do the following: > [update: MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386] > Is this ok [y/N]: y > Downloading Packages > Running test transaction: > Test transaction complete, Success! > Cannot install the MAKEDEV package: mounted devfs detected. > error: %pre(MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 > error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1 > Updated: MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386 > Transaction(s) Complete > [root hoho2 ~]# > Updating dev also produces this. The problem is that the the preinstall script is checking for anything mounted on /dev (thinking that would be devfs). Recently (not sure when exactly), /dev is now mounted as ramfs so the install/upgrade of dev fails. -- David T Hollis <dhollis davehollis com>
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