Installation of package fails with "unpacking of archive failed on file <dir>: cpio: chown failed " error.
Issue
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Installation of filesystem package fails with unpacking of archive failed on file
: cpio: chown failed error if partition is NFS mounted. -
rhn_check command failed during installation of filesystem package with following error:
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/local: cpio: chown failed
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
- directories belonging to the package are mounted over NFS
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