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[Ragni Singh]

Can anyone shed some light as to what is going on here...Look at the erro message toward the bottom

up2date -uvf

Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
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Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
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Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
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kernel-2.4.20-18.9.i686.rpm ########################## Done.
kernel-bigmem-2.4.20-18.9.i ########################## Done.
kernel-smp-2.4.20-18.9.i686 ########################## Done.
kernel-source-2.4.20-18.9.i ########################## Done.
Preparing ########################################### [100%]

Installing...
1:kernel-source ########################################### [100%]
2:kernel ########################################### [100%]
cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.FojjkE//dev/cciss/c0d0p2': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.FojjkE//dev/cciss/c0d1p1': No such file or directory
3:kernel-bigmem ########################################### [100%]
cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.eFSnmt//dev/cciss/c0d0p2': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.eFSnmt//dev/cciss/c0d1p1': No such file or directory
4:kernel-smp ########################################### [100%]
cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.jwaINt//dev/cciss/c0d0p2': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create special file `/tmp/initrd.jwaINt//dev/cciss/c0d1p1': No such file or directory

[Jerome Henry]

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.
Do you have a specila installtion or standard ? On what kind of machine ? Smp ?
J

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

Check your permitions for the dist. directory.
Also check syslog and mail you may see an answer for the question what happend.

Caesar