Error message during "yum update"

[Joachim Backes]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:10 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Joachim Backes wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > during "yum update" (FC4) I get the following error message:
> > 
> > Running Transaction
> >   Updating  : openldap                     #######################
> > [ 1/20]
> >   Updating  : libungif                     #######################
> > [ 2/20]
> >   Updating  : wireless-tools               #######################
> > [ 3/20]
> >   Updating  : tar                          #######################
> > [ 4/20]
> >   Updating  : nmh                          #######################
> > [ 5/20]
> > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/install-mh;437091d9:
> > cpio: link
> 
> The usual cause of this sort of thing is when a new version of a package 
> includes a file/directory/symlink at some location (/usr/bin/install-mh 
> in this case) and the thing already at that location (perhaps in an 
> older version of the package) is of a different type, e.g. a directory 
> instead of a file.
> 
> Try removing the nmh package and then reinstalling it using yum.
> 
> Paul.

Hi, Paul,

tank you for your answer, but did not help (see error msg below): nmh
was installed, but with error:

rpm -e nmh
root at pc31 [~]: yum install nmh
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B
00:00
http://ftp.ipv6.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (97, 'Address family not supported by protocol')>
Trying other mirror.
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 814 kB
00:18
Extras    : ################################################## 2290/2290
Added 2290 new packages, deleted 0 old in 52.11 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 343 kB
00:01
updates-re: ################################################## 1010/1010
Added 1010 new packages, deleted 0 old in 30.92 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 824 kB
00:02
base      : ################################################## 2772/2772
Added 2772 new packages, deleted 0 old in 52.70 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 814 kB
00:00
extras    : ################################################## 2290/2290
Added 2290 new packages, deleted 0 old in 52.07 seconds
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for nmh to pack into transaction set.
nmh-1.1-10.fc4.i386.rpm   100% |=========================|  21 kB
00:00
---> Package nmh.i386 0:1.1-10.fc4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 nmh                     i386       1.1-10.fc4       Extras
1.9 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 1.9 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): nmh-1.1-10.fc4.i38 100% |=========================| 1.9 MB
00:05
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
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!

-- 
Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen

Joachim Backes <backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK],
Systems and Operations group,
High performance computing and LINUX cluster management.

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