can anybody install gnome-volume-manager?

[sean]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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.
> 

Wow! Who knew?

chattr -i worked.

Thanks a lot. I'd never heard about immutable, much less 
figured that out.

sean