[vox-tech] xmms failure

[Jonathan Stickel]

I just noticed that another of my programs is broken.  Trying to fix by 
rpm gives a similar error.  How do I remount my Linux partition as 
read-only and run fsck, as you suggest?

Thanks,
Jonathan


Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> hi jonathan,
> 
> that cpio error may hint at either a munged rpm or filesystem
> corruption.  it's odd that lstat failed.  i hope it was lstating
> something within the cpio archive, and not something that's on the hard
> drive.  some ideas to try in no particular order.  and yes, some of it
> is grasping at straws:
> 
> is xmms a symbolic link?
> 
> try redownloading the rpm from a different site or using a different
> method.
> 
> try remounting / as read-only and run fsck.
> 
> also, look for DriveSeek type errors in your system logs.
> 
> pete
> 
> 
> 
> 
> begin Rusty Minden <clownsinc@attbi.com> 
> 
>>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
>>
>>
>>Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly 
>>around women. And I hope I never get into that.
>>--William J. Clinton - Bill Clinton
> 
> 
> heh.  i'd prefer ironic over moronic any day of the week!  ;)
> 
> pete
>