Udo Weber wrote:
>
> Michael Irving wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Udo Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 2:34 PM
> > Subject: [Cooker] initscript update problem
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > if I try to update the initscript-rpm I get following errors:
> > >
> > > [root@mumpel RPMS]# rpm -Fvh initscripts-5.27-12mdk.i586.rpm
> > > warning: /etc/X11/prefdm created as /etc/X11/prefdm.rpmnew
> > > initscripts ######unpacking of archive failed on file
> > > /etc/init.
> > > d: cpio: unlink
> > >
> > > the same for the newest:
> > > [root@mumpel RPMS]# rpm -Fvh initscripts-5.27-15mdk.i586.rpm
> > > warning: /etc/X11/prefdm created as /etc/X11/prefdm.rpmnew
> > > initscripts ######unpacking of archive failed on file
> > > /etc/init.
> > > d: cpio: unlink
> > >
> > > No way to install !
> > > What is wrong here ? How can I install/update this ?
> > >
> > rpm -e harddrake
> > rpm -Uvh initscripts*
> > rpm -Uvh harddrake*
> >
> > That solved the problem for me
>
> Hi,
> thanks for this hint but this did not help.
> I got still the same result when I try rpm -Uvh initscripts* .
> after rpm -e harddrake
>
> [root@mumpel RPMS]# rpm -Uvh initscripts-5.27-15mdk.i586.rpm
> warning: /etc/X11/prefdm created as /etc/X11/prefdm.rpmnew
> initscripts ######unpacking of archive failed on file
> /etc/init.
> d: cpio: unlink
>
> There are any other hints or help ?
Yes. I had this problem, because I had a directory "/etc/init.d".
I deleted the directory which contained nothing, and then installed
initscripts. initscripts then made a symbolic link
from /etc/init.d to /etc/rc.d/init.d
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