[Yast-users] problem installing yast on new oel4-U5 system

[Zhao Shujing]

Hi, Phillip
I think perhaps on the first machine the rpm might be corrupted. I'd
suggest to verify with md5sum if its the same as on the box where it
works.

Thanks
Pearly Zhao

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:06 +1100, Phillip Brown wrote:
> I have been trying to install yast2 on a new oel4-u5, with latest (as of
> today) updates.
> 
> It all goes fine until it gets to installing yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm
> (which is the current one available from oss.oracle.com).
> 
> [root at appserver05 ~]# rpm -Uvh yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>    1:yast-EM                ###########################################
> [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic
> [root at appserver05 ~]# rpm -q cpio
> cpio-2.5-13.RHEL4
> [root at appserver05 ~]# cpio --version
> GNU cpio version 2.5
> [root at appserver05 ~]# rpm -q rpm
> rpm-4.3.3-23_nonptl.0.1
> [root at appserver05 ~]# rpm2cpio yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm | cpio -it
> cpio: premature end of archive
> 
> rpm -q on the file works, but not actually installing
> 
> 
> on my opensuse 10.3 laptop, I can do
> 
> pbrown at arisia:~/temp> rpm2cpio yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm | cpio -it
> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-dns.ycp
> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-host.ycp
> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-network-devices.ycp
> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-nfs-client.ycp
> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-routing.ycp
> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-services.ycp
> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-test.ycp
> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/GPL
> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/LICENSE
> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/RunYast.sh
> 173 blocks
> pbrown at arisia:~/temp> cpio --version
> cpio (GNU cpio) 2.9
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> p.s. I would have logged a bugzilla, but yast2 does not appear as a
> choice for logging a bug.
>