cpio: write error during update/installation of kernel or kernel-smp package
Issue
- error when trying to install the latest patches, like the following:
# up2date -uf
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-4...
[...]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-2.6.9-89.0.23.ELsmp: cpio: write
There was a fatal RPM install error. The message was:
There was a rpm unpack error installing the package: kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.23.EL
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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