CentOS - Apr 2009 - filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the 
filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an 
NFS filesystem.

I sorta-kinda remember this when going from 5.1 to 5.2, but that 
memory is hazy.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the
> filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an
> NFS filesystem.
I confirm this is present in 5.3 where /home is an NFS mount, 
and that I missed it in testing.  A workaround is:

1. Boot into single user node.
2. run: /sbin/service network start
3. run: yum -y update filesystem

If your system emitted the warning, but did not 'bail', it is 
safe to retieve the rpm locally, and to run:

# rpm -Uvh filesystem*rpm --force

as there are no scripts in play:

[herrold at centos-5 ~]$ sudo rpm -q --scripts filesystem
[herrold at centos-5 ~]$

The cause is the NFS root_squash being in effect when a NFS 
overmount is on a mountpoint, it seems.  /home happens to 
express it

It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted 
/home left.

-- Russ herrold

Paul Heinlein wrote:
> I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the
> filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an
> NFS filesystem.
No problem here, /home is exported as nfs4 with sec=kerb5.


regards
Olaf