Just a thought- You don't have any sym links in the /usr/lib area do you? I had similar error messages from rpm's when I had a temporary sym link to /usr and /var mounted under other names. Richard Smith On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 09:13:53PM -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

Robert,

Try this:

rpm -Uvh --force <file> && ldconfig && init u

This should make it so you can update the shlibs package and not even have to restart.

Regards,

* Robert Sweet (rsweet@socal.rr.com) [010128 21:08]: =>I cannot get nssv1 or shlibs to upgrade: => =>rpm -Uvh shlibs.rpm =>shlibs =>############################can't rename =>/usr/lib/gconv/ISO-IR-197.so to =>/usr/lib/gconv/ISO-IR-197.so-RPMDELETE: Operation not =>permitted =>unpacking of archive failed on file =>/usr/lib/gconv/ISO-IR-197.so: cpio: unlink failed - Bad file =>descriptor => =>I get a similar error from nssv1. And I cannot rm or mv =>the file??? -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:brosenb@suse.com --------------------------------------- SuSE Inc. 580 Second St Suite 210 Oakland CA 94607 U.S.A Tel: 1-510-628-3380 EXT:5086 Fax: 1-510-628-3381 --------------------------------------- "There are no problems, only solutions."

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Same thing. I tried the force option and nodeps before. And I ran ldconfig. I am lost on this one. Output of new command: rpm -Uvh --force shlibs.rpm && ldconfig && init u shlibs ############################can't rename /usr/lib/gconv/ISO-IR-197.so to /usr/lib/gconv/ISO-IR-197.so-RPMDELETE: Operation not permitted unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/gconv/ISO-IR-197.so: cpio: unlink failed - Bad file descriptor --