On ���, 2002-01-20 at 05:58, John Haywood wrote: > And why would it want to do that? > > > [root@thang rpms]# rpm -Uvh /home/john/filesystem-2.1.3-4mdk.noarch.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > 1:filesystem error: unpacking of archive failed on file > /mnt/cdrom: cpio: chown failed - Read-only file system
the error is more than a year old. It happens when /mnt/cdrom is mounted read-only (e.g. in case of supermount). -andrej
