It is acually 3 diffrent versions of the same rpm for
rawhide as they have been releasing them.  They have
been:

XFree86-4.0-0.4.rpm
XFree86-4.0-0.6.rpm
XFree86-4.0-0.8.rpm

I tried what you said and that got it installed so now I
am just trying to get it configured correctly

Bill W


>From: Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: RPM problem
>Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:25:58 -0700
>
>On Apr 30, 12:02am, arson smith wrote:
>
> > This is a very strange one. I have been trying to upgrade via rpm a 
>redhat
> > system 6.0 (with many upgrades) to xfree40.  I am useing the rawhide 
>rpms
> > from redhat for this and was trying for quite some time.  Two diffrent
> > versions of the same rpm kept giveing me this same error:
> >
> > XFree86                     ###################unpacking of archive 
>failed
> > on file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults: cpio: unlink failed - Bad file
> > descriptor
> >
> > I then grabed redhat 6.2 and installed it from scratch.  by this time 
>there
> > was a new version of XFree86 rpm and it is still giveing me this same
> > problem.  I am going to see if I can grab the .src.rpm and do it from 
>there
> > but it seems that this cant be just me having this problem and if it is 
>I
> > would like to know why.  two completely diffrent systems and 3 diffrent
> > versions of the same rpm.
>
>Is it really three different versions of the same RPM?  Or are you
>trying to install the same RPM obtained from three different sources
>(mirrors) ?
>
>In any event, the error message suggests that cpio is attempting
>to unlink() /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults.  If that is indeed the
>case, it definitely won't work since app-defaults is a directory,
>not a regular file.  (One calls rmdir() to remove an empty directory.)
>
>You might try working around this problem by becoming root and then
>doing the following:
>
>     cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11; mv app-defaults app-defaults-sav
>
>With no app-defaults directory in place, you might get somewhat
>further along.
>
>Now back to my original question.  If you're really trying three
>different RPMS, then it seems unlikely that all three would contain
>the same error.  OTOH, if you've simply obtained the same RPM from
>three different mirrors, it seems quite possible that there could
>be an error in the RPM.  (It's quite easy to put together an RPM
>that won't install properly - I speak from experience.)
>
>Kevin
>
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