Not really a fix for your problem, but an fyi...Mandrakes 7.1 beta has
xfree86 4.0 as part of the package. I was able to get it to run on mandrake
7.0 with Mandrakes rpm's. Mandrake is supposed to be compatible with the
redhat rpms.
You mentioned upgrading the rpms. Are you running a rpm -U. If so, did you
try to load redhat 6.2 without x support and add the new rpms from the shell ?
Jason Brown
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you 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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