update filesystem on proxmox container

Posted on August 19, 2019  •  1 minutes  • 186 words  •  Suggest Changes

A quick fix for a weird issue that in Proxmox unprivileged container fails to install filesystem update on Centos 7 :

[root@server ~]# yum install filesystem
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: ftp.belnet.be
 * extras: ftp.belnet.be
 * updates: ftp.belnet.be
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package filesystem.x86_64 0:3.2-21.el7 will be updated
---> Package filesystem.x86_64 0:3.2-25.el7 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                              Arch                                             Version                                                Repository                                      Size
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Updating:
 filesystem                                           x86_64                                           3.2-25.el7                                             base                                           1.0 M

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrade  1 Package

Total download size: 1.0 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
Delta RPMs disabled because /usr/bin/applydeltarpm not installed.
filesystem-3.2-25.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                                            | 1.0 MB  00:00:00
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Updating   : filesystem-3.2-25.el7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                    1/2
Error unpacking rpm package filesystem-3.2-25.el7.x86_64
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /sys: cpio: chown
  Verifying  : filesystem-3.2-25.el7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                    1/2
filesystem-3.2-21.el7.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not!
  Verifying  : filesystem-3.2-21.el7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                    2/2

Failed:
  filesystem.x86_64 0:3.2-21.el7                                                                           filesystem.x86_64 0:3.2-25.el7

Complete!

The fix, thanks to this post :

echo "%_netsharedpath /sys:/proc" >> /etc/rpm/macros.dist

and tada :

Updated:
  filesystem.x86_64 0:3.2-25.el7