On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 08:58 -0500, Bob Gustafson wrote:
This is the detail on the MAKEDEV difficulties
[root@hoho2 ~]# yum update MAKEDEV
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[update: MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages
Running test transaction:
Test transaction complete, Success!
Cannot install the MAKEDEV package: mounted devfs detected.
error: %pre(MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1
Updated: MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386
Transaction(s) Complete
[root@hoho2 ~]#
Updating dev also produces this. The problem is that the the preinstall
script is checking for anything mounted on /dev (thinking that would be
devfs). Recently (not sure when exactly), /dev is now mounted as ramfs
so the install/upgrade of dev fails.
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David T Hollis <dhollis(a)davehollis.com>