[SOLVED] Strange error installing RPM

vikas027 · 09-30-2008, 10:43 AM

Hi all,

I need to install Raidtools RPM on my RHEL 5 machine.
I have downloaded the RPM from ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/redhat/r...0.3-2.i386.rpm

I am getting this strange error.

Code:

[root@vikas_vicky /]# rpm -ivh raidtools-1.00.3-2.i386.rpm
warning: raidtools-1.00.3-2.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:raidtools              ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /sbin/raidstart;48e2930b: cpio: read

I have gone through 2-3 threads relating to same topic, but in those topics file exists, in my case /sbin/raidstart does not exist, so there is no point of permissions issue.

Code:

[root@vikas_vicky /]# rpm -qpl raidtools-1.00.3-2.i386.rpm
warning: raidtools-1.00.3-2.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
/sbin/arytst
/sbin/detect_multipath
/sbin/lsraid
/sbin/mkraid
/sbin/raid0run
/sbin/raidhotadd
/sbin/raidhotremove
/sbin/raidreconf
/sbin/raidsetfaulty
/sbin/raidstart
/sbin/raidstop
/usr/share/doc/raidtools-1.00.3
/usr/share/doc/raidtools-1.00.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/raidtools-1.00.3/README
/usr/share/doc/raidtools-1.00.3/multipath.conf.sample
/usr/share/doc/raidtools-1.00.3/raid0.conf.sample
/usr/share/doc/raidtools-1.00.3/raid1.conf.sample
/usr/share/doc/raidtools-1.00.3/raid4.conf.sample
/usr/share/doc/raidtools-1.00.3/raid5.conf.sample
/usr/share/doc/raidtools-1.00.3/raidtab.sample
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man5
/usr/share/man/man5/raidtab.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/ckraid.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lsraid.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mkraid.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/raid0run.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/raidadd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/raidreconf.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/raidrun.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/raidstart.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/raidstop.8.gz
[root@vikas_vicky /]#

These are permissions of my /sbin/ directory

Code:

[root@vikas_vicky /]# ls -ld /sbin
drwxrwxr-x+ 2 root root 12288 Oct  1 02:30 /sbin

Pls help !! Also, if someone has some other link to download raidtools for RHEL5, please give me the link.

Regards,
VIKAS

MensaWater · 09-30-2008, 01:47 PM

It seems to be telling you it had an error getting the /sbin/raidstart out of the package. This suggests the RPM itself is corrupted. You might want to compare the md5sum of what is on your system to the one that was on the site you downloaded from - usually people providing packages provide the md5sum so you'll know you got what they intended.

Also a couple of useful utilities for examining the package you have:

rpm -qlp <package>.rpm
Shows the contents of a package but doesn't extract anything.

rpm2cpio <package>.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories [filename_to_extract]
Extracts the contents into the local directory. The [filename_to_extract]would be any of the files shown in the rpm -qlp so that you can extract only what you want (e.g. the /sbin/raidstart).