Sounds like a corrupt rpm.  I'd try downloading it again.

-BVG

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.
> 
> thanks for any advice
> Bill Warner
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