can anybody install gnome-volume-manager?

[Paul Howarth]

sean wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 22:40 -0500, sean wrote:
>>
>>> on amd64:
>>>
>>> rpm -Uvh gnome-volume-manager-1.5.11-1.2.x86_64.rpm
>>> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
>>>    1:gnome-volume-manager ########################################### 
>>> [100%]
>>> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/magicdev: cpio: 
>>> rename failed - Operation not permitted
>>>
>>> I've also rebuilt from the src.rpm. Same result. Looked at the spec 
>>> file. Nothing odd.
>>>
>>> Am I missing some magic handshake?
>>
>>
>>
>> What's /usr/bin/magicdev on your system?
>>
>> $ ls -l /usr/bin/magicdev
>>
>> And what is it in the rpm?
>>
>> $ rpm -qlpv gnome-volume-manager-1.5.11-1.2.x86_64.rpm | grep
>> -F /usr/bin/magicdev
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> 
>  ls -l /usr/bin/magicdev
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 26  2003 /usr/bin/magicdev
> 
>  rpm -qlpv gnome-volume-manager-1.5.11-1.2.x86_64.rpm | grep -F 
> /usr/bin/magicdev
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root              262 Feb 13 22:32 
> /usr/bin/magicdev

Curious; it seems to be just a regular file in both cases. This problem 
usually manifests itself when one is a file and the other is a 
directory. Can you try removing or renaming /usr/bin/magicdev before 
installing the RPM?

Paul.