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Subject: Re: Install of glibc-2.1.2-17 fails From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:00:24 +0100 (CET) On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Svante Signell wrote: > What is causing this? > > rpm -Uvh glibc-*2.1.2-17.i386.rpm > glibc ################################################## > unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/gconv/libCNS.so: cpio: read failed - Success By any chance, are you using rpm 3.0.4? rpm 3.0.4 is seriously broken, and you should downgrade to 3.0.3 ASAP. === ((3.0.3 shipped with RedHat 6.1 -- JB)) === Subject: Re: Upgrading to gcc-2.95-2 From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:19:11 +0100 (CET) On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Michael J. McGillick wrote: > rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm > > The oputput of this command is: > > error: failed dependencies: > libbfd-2.9.1.0.24.so is needed by kernel-utils-2.2.12-20 This is caused by what I'd call a bug in the kernel RPM - kernel-utils (=ksymoops, basically) is linked dynamically against libbfd, so it doesn't like binutils updates. The "fix" is to rpm -e kernel-utils, and recompile ksymoops if you need it at all. ===