https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/what-is-this-message/m-p/2991088#M4984 Try to manually check if these directories are created or not. Check also available space in that /tmp, if you do not have enough space (and what you install consume quite a lot !), the directories are overwritten.<BR />Do you have a specila installtion or standard ? On what kind of machine ? Smp ?<BR />J Fri, 06 Jun 2003 15:20:23 GMT Jerome Henry 2003-06-06T15:20:23Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/what-is-this-message/m-p/2991087#M4983 Can anyone shed some light as to what is going on here...Look at the erro message toward the bottom<BR /><BR />up2date -uvf<BR /><BR />Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...<BR />########################################<BR /><BR />Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...<BR />########################################<BR /><BR />Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...<BR />########################################<BR />kernel-2.4.20-18.9.i686.rpm ########################## Done.<BR />kernel-bigmem-2.4.20-18.9.i ########################## Done.<BR />kernel-smp-2.4.20-18.9.i686 ########################## Done.<BR />kernel-source-2.4.20-18.9.i ########################## Done.<BR />Preparing ########################################### [100%]<BR /><BR />Installing...<BR /> 1:kernel-source ########################################### [100%]<BR /> 2:kernel ########################################### [100%]<BR />cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.FojjkE//dev/cciss/c0d0p2': No such file or directory<BR />cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.FojjkE//dev/cciss/c0d1p1': No such file or directory<BR /> 3:kernel-bigmem ########################################### [100%]<BR />cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.eFSnmt//dev/cciss/c0d0p2': No such file or directory<BR />cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.eFSnmt//dev/cciss/c0d1p1': No such file or directory<BR /> 4:kernel-smp ########################################### [100%]<BR />cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.jwaINt//dev/cciss/c0d0p2': No such file or directory<BR />cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.jwaINt//dev/cciss/c0d1p1': No such file or directory<BR /><BR /> Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:44:10 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/what-is-this-message/m-p/2991087#M4983 Ragni Singh 2003-06-06T14:44:10Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/what-is-this-message/m-p/2991088#M4984 Try to manually check if these directories are created or not. Check also available space in that /tmp, if you do not have enough space (and what you install consume quite a lot !), the directories are overwritten.<BR />Do you have a specila installtion or standard ? On what kind of machine ? Smp ?<BR />J Fri, 06 Jun 2003 15:20:23 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/what-is-this-message/m-p/2991088#M4984 Jerome Henry 2003-06-06T15:20:23Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/what-is-this-message/m-p/2991089#M4985 Hello!<BR /><BR />Check your permitions for the dist. directory.<BR />Also check syslog and mail you may see an answer for the question what happend.<BR /><BR />Caesar Fri, 06 Jun 2003 17:07:54 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/what-is-this-message/m-p/2991089#M4985 Caesar_3 2003-06-06T17:07:54Z