David Haller wrote:
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
Yes, it appears in /proc/mounts. So I guess what your are saying is that rpm scans /proc/mounts and if it gets an error on df for available space, even if the mount has nothing to do with the rpm transaction, it still throws the error? That seems like a weird way for rpm to work, but, like it mentioned at the start, rpm does work it's just squawking a little bit. Not worth a bug report. You can just imagine how high the priority would be with the devs. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org