Facing "error: unpacking of archive failed on file <filename>;XXXX cpio: open" when installing or updating a package
Issue
- The following error is received when issuing a
yum install
oryum update
on a certain package:
Running Transaction
Installing : 1:telnet-0.17-47.el6.x86_64 1/1
Error unpacking rpm package 1:telnet-0.17-47.el6.x86_64
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/telnet;5006e078: cpio: open
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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