unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/rhgb/temp: cpio: lsetfilecon

[Paul Howarth]

Dave Mitchell wrote:
> rhgb-0.16.4-3.fc6 is refusing to install via yum update:
> 
>   Updating  : rhgb                         ######################### [3/7] 
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/rhgb/temp: cpio: lsetfilecon
>   Updating  : mplayer-gui                  ######################### [4/7] 
>   ...
> 
> 
> # ls -d --lcontext /etc/rhgb/temp/
> drwx------ 2 system_u:object_r:ramfs_t        root root 0 Oct 31 22:28 /etc/rhgb/temp/
> 
> 
> Any ideas? I'm not particularly familiar with selinux.

Try:
# restorecon -rv /etc/rhgb

/etc/rhgb/temp should be mnt_t, not ramfs_t.

Paul.