Hello, On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
18:25 zephyr:~> sudo rpm -Uvh --oldpackage http://nirvana/tmp/kdiff3-0.9.92-172.1.i586.rpm Retrieving http://nirvana/tmp/kdiff3-0.9.92-172.1.i586.rpm error: failed to stat /mnt/ripper: No such device or address [..] The error occurs when a mounted smb device is unavailable. The question is "Why the error since this rpm transaction did not involve the unavailable device at all?"
Does /mnt/ripper appear in /proc/mounts? If so, the reason is simply, that rpm does something like a 'df' before installation of a package (reads /proc/mounts and then stats all mountpoints). You should get the error even with '--test' as rpm will look for space in that case as well. HTH, -dnh -- "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org