Bug 1543

Summary: rpm -U when disk full reports "..failed...: -1: Success"
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: dan
Component: rpmAssignee: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description dan 1999-03-16 22:24:46 UTC 
# rpm -U emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm
unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/emacs-nox: -1:
Success
error: emacs-nox-20.3-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed

Moderately non-obvious as error messages go ...
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-03-17 16:29:59 UTC 
Fix by upgrading rpm to 2.5.7 (or 2.92).