Updating the filesystem package fails with error "unpacking of archive failed on file /mnt: cpio: chown failed"
Issue
- While updating or upgrade of filesystem package, the error message "unpacking of archive failed on file /mnt: cpio: chown failed - Read-only filesystem" appears.
yum update filesystem
Upgrade 1 Package
Total download size: 1.0 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Downloading packages:
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Updating : filesystem-3.2-20.el7.x86_64 1/2
Error unpacking rpm package filesystem-3.2-20.el7.x86_64
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /mnt: cpio: chmod
Verifying : filesystem-3.2-20.el7.x86_64 1/2
filesystem-3.2-18.el7.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not!
Verifying : filesystem-3.2-18.el7.x86_64 2/2
Failed:
filesystem.x86_64 0:3.2-18.el7 filesystem.x86_64 0:3.2-20.el7
Complete!
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- filesystem.x86_64 0:3.2-18.el7
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