RE: RPM won't install/upgrade things for me...

[Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada]

I am not an RPM expert, but I would try to rebuild the RPM database first
(look at the man page for this. It is pretty easy). Then I would try to
"upgrade" the packages with rpm -Uvh instead of rpm -ivh.

-Manuel.

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Stan Bubrouski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Enviado el: Miércoles, 10 de Mayo de 2000 12:55 p.m.
> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Asunto: RPM won't install/upgrade things for me...
>
>
> Ok basically here's how it goes:
>
> [root@king apr24]# rpm -ivh XFree86-4.0-0.8.i386.rpm
> XFree86
> #################################################unpacking
> of archive failed on file /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: cpio: link
> failed - Bad
> file descriptor
>
> Well that's just great.  Not only does /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
> not exist now
> I'm left with a
> partially installed XFree86 that never finished installing
> and thus the
> rpmdb was never
> updated leaving tons of files unaccounted for.  I can deal
> with that, what
> I need to do
> is figure out how to get rid of this problem...since xterm
> does not exist I
> do not
> understand how there can be a bad file descriptor.  I've seen
> this once or
> twice before
> and usually remedied the problem by uninstalling an old
> version of the
> package and
> trying again.  In this case that is not the cause and it's really
> frustrating me cause I
> need to install X and I can't.  Does anyone know I can track
> down the cause
> of this
> problem and install XFree86 correctly?  All I need to know is
> how to find
> the cause
> this and stop it.
>
> Please help :)
>
> -Stan Bubrouski
>
>
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