CentOS - Jul 2010 - Update update failed on filesystem-2.4.0-3.el5.x86_64

I was doing a upgrade of an existing machine from 5.4 to 5.5.
Everything else worked except for this rpm
filesystem-2.4.0-3.el5.x86_64

It seems that it's trying to unpack the file into the CentOS DVD mount point
> Error unpacking rpm package filesystem-2.4.0-3.el5.x86_64
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /media: cpio: lsetfilecon
Would it be safe to manually download the rpm then install it locally,
or would that not work either? I haven't restart the machine because
I'm concerned that not updating this file could mean the filesystem
becomes inaccessible.

I believe the filesystem RPM basically owns all the main directories on the
system. One of them being /media. I suspect you have something mounted on
/media, and since installing filesystem will try to create /media, that
results in an error it wasn't expecting.

can you umount /media and try again? I think that would allow
'filesystem'
to complete its install process....

-Bond
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> I was doing a upgrade of an existing machine from 5.4 to 5.5.
> Everything else worked except for this rpm
> filesystem-2.4.0-3.el5.x86_64
> 
> It seems that it's trying to unpack the file into the CentOS DVD mount
> point
> 
> > Error unpacking rpm package filesystem-2.4.0-3.el5.x86_64
> > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /media: cpio: lsetfilecon
> 
> Would it be safe to manually download the rpm then install it locally,
> or would that not work either? I haven't restart the machine because
> I'm concerned that not updating this file could mean the filesystem
> becomes inaccessible.
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On 7/1/10, Bond Masuda <bond.masuda at jlbond.com>
wrote:
> I believe the filesystem RPM basically owns all the main directories on the
> system. One of them being /media. I suspect you have something mounted on
> /media, and since installing filesystem will try to create /media, that
> results in an error it wasn't expecting.
>
> can you umount /media and try again? I think that would allow
'filesystem'
> to complete its install process....
Thank you very much for the help, didn't realized /media was still mounted.