Hi all, this is my first post so don't be to hard on me. Up to now (about 2 years) I have been running CentOS on my file server without a problem. I see the little red upgrade indicator on the upper left bar, I hit it, it downloads upgrades, I hit go, it's all good. Yesterday I downloaded kernel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL and I got an error.

"There was a fatal RPM install error. The message was: There was a rpm unpack error installing the package: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL"

Is this a big problem or can someone help me out with a quick, or slow, fix?

Thanks,
Tony

Hello and welcome to LQ. Hope you like it here. Check if you've got enough disk space in temp dirs and /boot (if separate partition). If so then see if the kernel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL.*.rpm is in your yum cache and try to upgrade from the commandline manually and post exact errors.

Thanks I'll try that

my temp file shows 124.6 GB of free space and my /boot file indicates 0 bytes of free space. Can I just delete some files? How do I know what files are needed?

/boot contains kernels and the bootloader. If you have amassed kernel versions you don't run anymore due to upgrading you can remove them. List them using 'grep kernel /var/log/rpmpkgs' (if /etc/cron.daily/rpm is used and has run successfully) or 'rpm --last -q kernel' or 'rpm --qf "%{name} %{installtime:date}\n" -q kernel' if your version of rpm doesn't take "--last". It's a human decision to choose which kernels to remove so do get it right.

Thanks again!!

unSpawn, it worked! I cleared some files from /boot and it worked.

That's good to know. I do hope it didn't take you ten days to swap a kernel though?

He he, not 10 but close. I got another machine running CentOS and that's my guinea pig. Since I wasn't too clear on what to erase, I would do experimentation on it, then on the server. Can't afford to have my office down, as you can tell, still learning how to manage Linux.