CentOS - Nov 2005 - fatal rpm/cpio error

How am I supposed to deal with this error?

# rpm -Uvh filesystem-2.2.1-3.centos.1.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
    1:filesystem             ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /home: cpio: chown failed - Operation
not permitted
# rpm -q filesystem
package filesystem is not installed
# ls -dlL /home
drwxr-xr-x  301 root     root         8192 Nov  2 18:25 /home

/home mounted from NFS server.

Of course, I could unmount /home to install this. But I have many
machines like this one and /home can't always be unmounted when we do
updates. I personally feel it's a bug in filesystem package. rpm
shouldn't blow up like that because of this issue.


-akop

Akop Pogosian wrote:
> How am I supposed to deal with this error?
> 
> # rpm -Uvh filesystem-2.2.1-3.centos.1.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
>    1:filesystem             ########################################### 
> [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /home: cpio: chown failed - 
> Operation not permitted
> # rpm -q filesystem
> package filesystem is not installed
> # ls -dlL /home
> drwxr-xr-x  301 root     root         8192 Nov  2 18:25 /home
> 
> /home mounted from NFS server.
You need to allow root acess to the NFS share (ie, export with the 
no_root_squash option).

Or don't NFS mount /home.

-- Rex