Bug 1543 – rpm -U when disk full reports "..failed...: -1: Success"

Bug 1543 - rpm -U when disk full reports "..failed...: -1: Success"

Summary:	rpm -U when disk full reports "..failed...: -1: Success"

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-03-16 17:24 EST by dan
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-03-17 11:29:07 EST
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Description dan 1999-03-16 17:24:46 EST

# 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 11:29:59 EST

Fix by upgrading rpm to 2.5.7 (or 2.92).

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