Thanks,
Jonathan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
hi jonathan,
that cpio error may hint at either a munged rpm or filesystem
corruption. it's odd that lstat failed. i hope it was lstating
something within the cpio archive, and not something that's on the hard
drive. some ideas to try in no particular order. and yes, some of it
is grasping at straws:
is xmms a symbolic link?
try redownloading the rpm from a different site or using a different
method.
try remounting / as read-only and run fsck.
also, look for DriveSeek type errors in your system logs.
pete
begin Rusty Minden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
XMMS depends on other packages. For instance with Debian I have to install unzip or I can't use skins. You may have updated a package that was required and now XMMS does not see the required package. This is only a guess though.
Rusty
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:13 am, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
I have been using xmms for quite some time, but just this
morning it stopped working! All of its plugins seem to have
dissapeared. The only change since I last used xmms
succesfully was a RH up2date of an unrelated program.
I try to do an rpm uninstall of xmms, but it tells me it is
not installed. Yet, the xmms binary is still in
usr/share/bin. So I try to do an rpm install of xmms, hoping
it will overwrite any lost files, etc, and I get this error:
# rpm -Uvh xmms-1.2.7-13.p.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:xmms ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: lstat failed - Value
too large for defined data type
Any help out there? Thanks,
Jonathan
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
--William J. Clinton - Bill Clinton
heh. i'd prefer ironic over moronic any day of the week! ;)pete
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