SysVinit unpack error?

[Mark Haney]

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 07:18, Robert Wilkens wrote:
> Greetings,
>  
> Last night I installed Fedora Core 3 Test 2 with a "minimal
> installation".  This included no GUI or most of the standard tools.  I
> updated the basic set of tools to get me a Gnome Desktop installed
> with up2date command-line.
>  
> Anyway, Now that it's installed, many packages, such as evolution,
> want to install SysVinit.. Specifically, SysVinit-2.85.33.i386.rpm ..
> When I try to install that (ignoring GPG Keys, because NONE of them
> work for me), I get an unpack error, specifically, "There was a RPM
> unpack error installing the package: SysVinit-2.85.33".  This prevents
> a number of libraries and applications from installing.
>  

I had the same problem even after cleaning out /var/spool/up2date.  I
also had the problem on one other package, but I can't remember what it
was now and because of it my T2 install is FUBAR and can't tell you what
it is.


> Is this a known issue on this list?  At Red-Hat?
>  
> Thanks,
> Rob Wilkens
> 
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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
mhaney at interactsys.com
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 
08:06:08 up 13 min, 1 user, load average: 1.51, 1.01, 0.54 
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