cpio: write error during update/installation of kernel or kernel-smp package

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • error when trying to install the latest patches, like the following:
# up2date -uf

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-4...  

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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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