Bug 1326
| Summary: | Impossible to upgrade util-linux | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | p929001 |
| Component: | util-linux | Assignee: | Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-03-25 00:16:35 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
p929001
1999-02-25 14:18:52 UTC
Sounds like the rpm package update may be corrupt. Try obtaining another copy and running rpm -K <package name> and that will tell you if the package tranferred correctly. The result was: # rpm -K util-linux-2.8-11.i386.rpm util-linux-2.8-11.i386.rpm: size (PGP) md5 OK (MISSING KEYS) I'm not very familiar with PGP; this may be the reason for the missing keys. Anyway, this new copy gives the same result as the old one. Usually these erros are "Out of disk space". If you upgrade to a later version of rpm (2.5.7) from rpm.redhat.com you should get a decoded text message of -2147483639 ------- Additional Comments From 03/16/99 09:16 ------- I am not out of disk space; I have approx. 176 MB free. rpm.redhat.com only had version 2.5.6, but it changed the error message: unpacking of archive failed on file /bin/login: cpio: unlink failed - Operation not permitted error: util-linux-2.8-11.i386.rpm cannot be installed Using the -vv option gave: # rpm -vv -U util-linux-2.8-11.i386.rpm D: counting packages to install D: found 1 packages D: looking for packages to download D: retrieved 0 packages D: finding source and binary packages D: New Header signature D: Signature size: 236 D: Signature pad : 4 D: sigsize : 240 D: Header + Archive: 310635 D: expected size : 310635 D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages D: opening database mode: 0102 D: opening database in //var/lib/rpm/ D: dependencies: looking for pam D: dependencies: looking for ld-linux.so.2 D: dependencies: looking for libc.so.6 D: dependencies: looking for libcrypt.so.1 D: dependencies: looking for libdl.so.2 D: dependencies: looking for libm.so.6 D: dependencies: looking for libncurses.so.4 D: dependencies: looking for libpam.so.0 D: dependencies: looking for libpam_misc.so.0 D: dependencies: looking for libslang.so.0 D: dependencies: looking for libtermcap.so.2 D: installing binary packages Installing util-linux-2.8-11.i386.rpm D: New Header signature D: Signature size: 236 D: Signature pad : 4 D: sigsize : 240 D: Header + Archive: 310635 D: expected size : 310635 D: package: util-linux-2.8-11 files test = 0 D: running preinstall script (if any) unpacking of archive failed on file /bin/login: cpio: unlink failed - Operation not permitted error: util-linux-2.8-11.i386.rpm cannot be installed ------- Additional Comments From 03/18/99 04:54 ------- I tried another approach: # rpm2cpio ~/temp/util-linux-2.8-11.i386.rpm | cpio -i --unconditional cpio: cannot remove current bin/login: Operation not permitted 1537 blocks This indicates to me that this is not an rpm problem, but something that in general prevents me from modifying /bin/login. The permissions for /bin/ login are (still) -rws--x--x 1 root root 252040 Oct 23 1997 /bin/login The size is way too large. If I unpack bin/login to another directory, the size is only 15284 bytes. The permissions are the same. I have also tried to remove /bin/login manually, this gives # rm -v login removing login rm: cannot unlink `login': Operation not permitted Running fsck un the unmounted /dev/hda2 (where the root filesystem resides) did not help. Is it possible that my system has been hacked, and the login program changed to capture my passwords? That file is way too large. Looks like a hack is a possiblity you may want to consider. But, there might just be some kind of system problem. Reboot using a boot disk, mount up the drive, and try to remove it there. If it still won't remove, it's a disk problem. Also, be sure to put another copy of login back in there before you reboot again. Or you may not be too happy. :-) ------- Additional Comments From 03/19/99 03:49 ------- I already tried booting from a boot disk, mounting and rm'ing (cf. the original bug report), so that's not it. So it is a system problem? Boot to single user amd delete the file. You might also look at chattr(1) which may be what is preventing you from removing/chaanging the file. This is not a util-linux problem. ------- Additional Comments From 04/07/99 07:22 ------- I have booted to single user mode before; that dit not help. However, lsattr showed that /bin/login had the "a" attribute set. I have no idea why. Anyway, using chattr I removed this attribute and deleted (or rather, moved for future reference) /bin/login. After that, I could install util-linux without problems. In other words, the problem was my lack of knowledge about these 'hidden' attributes. |