can anybody install gnome-volume-manager?

[Paul Howarth]

sean wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> sean wrote:
>>
>>> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 22:40 -0500, sean wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> on amd64:
>>>>>
>>>>> rpm -Uvh gnome-volume-manager-1.5.11-1.2.x86_64.rpm
>>>>> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
>>>>>    1:gnome-volume-manager 
>>>>> ########################################### [100%]
>>>>> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/magicdev: cpio: 
>>>>> rename failed - Operation not permitted
>>>>>
>>>>> I've also rebuilt from the src.rpm. Same result. Looked at the spec 
>>>>> file. Nothing odd.
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I missing some magic handshake?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What's /usr/bin/magicdev on your system?
>>>>
>>>> $ ls -l /usr/bin/magicdev
>>>>
>>>> And what is it in the rpm?
>>>>
>>>> $ rpm -qlpv gnome-volume-manager-1.5.11-1.2.x86_64.rpm | grep
>>>> -F /usr/bin/magicdev
>>>>
>>>> Paul.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  ls -l /usr/bin/magicdev
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 26  2003 /usr/bin/magicdev
>>>
>>>  rpm -qlpv gnome-volume-manager-1.5.11-1.2.x86_64.rpm | grep -F 
>>> /usr/bin/magicdev
>>> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root              262 Feb 13 22:32 
>>> /usr/bin/magicdev
>>
>>
>>
>> Curious; it seems to be just a regular file in both cases. This 
>> problem usually manifests itself when one is a file and the other is a 
>> directory. Can you try removing or renaming /usr/bin/magicdev before 
>> installing the RPM?
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> 
> Really curious. Look:
> 
> [root at amd64-3000 development]# rpm -qif /usr/bin/magicdev
> file /usr/bin/magicdev is not owned by any package
> [root at amd64-3000 development]# rm -f  /usr/bin/magicdev
> rm: cannot remove `/usr/bin/magicdev': Operation not permitted
> [root at amd64-3000 development]# chmod 777 /usr/bin/magicdev
> chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/bin/magicdev': Operation not permitted
> [root at amd64-3000 development]# mv /usr/bin/magicdev .
> mv: cannot move `/usr/bin/magicdev' to `./magicdev': Operation not 
> permitted

Maybe it's immutable:

# lsattr /usr/bin/magicdev

Paul.