[vox-tech] xmms failure

Rusty Minden vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:26:07 -0800


XMMS depends on other packages. For instance with Debian I have 
to install unzip or I can't use skins. You may have updated a 
package that was required and now XMMS does not see the required 
package. This is only a guess though.

Rusty

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:13 am, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> I have been using xmms for quite some time, but just this
> morning it stopped working!  All of its plugins seem to have
> dissapeared.  The only change since I last used xmms
> succesfully was a RH up2date of an unrelated program.
>
> I try to do an rpm uninstall of xmms, but it tells me it is
> not installed.  Yet, the xmms binary is still in
> usr/share/bin.  So I try to do an rpm install of xmms, hoping
> it will overwrite any lost files, etc, and I get this error:
>
> # rpm -Uvh xmms-1.2.7-13.p.i386.rpm
> Preparing...               
> ########################################### [100%]
>     1:xmms                  
> ########################################### [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: lstat failed - Value
> too large for defined data type
>
> Any help out there?  Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
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