[KLUG Members] YaST/rpm failed

[John Bridleman]

* Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> The burninator?

Yep!

> Did you try running /sbin/ldconfig and trying again?

Yep. No luck.

> mkdir can fail for lots of reasons,  I'd wager the 990 unknown error is
> reflected up out of glibc somewhere.  If you strace it where does it
> fail?

I did this:
 strace rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.1.1-208.2.i586.rpm

but I can't figure out what I'm looking at. Here are the last few lines....

open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
fsync(3)                                = 0
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x4038d000, 1323008)             = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[RTMIN RT_1], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
brk(0x80a8000)                          = 0x80a8000
munmap(0x4053f000, 4096)                = 0
exit_group(1)                           = ?

What creeps me out is when I just do a 'ls' in the usr directory I get the same message:

trogdor:/usr # ls
/bin/ls: src: Unknown error 990
.   X11    bin    i586-suse-linux  lib    sbin   tmp
..  X11R6  games  include          local  share
trogdor:/usr #
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