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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:11:17 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: rmp core dumps
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In-Reply-To: <20001203121945.A2098@titan.klemm.gtn.com>; from andreas@klemm.gtn.com on Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:19:45PM +0100

On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:19:45PM +0100, Andreas Klemm wrote:
>Hi !
>
>I wanted to install add on software using rpm format.
>
>I followed the instructions under http://cygwin.cjb.net/,
>downloaded and installed the rpm 3.0.6 binary using
>cd /; tar xvzf ...
>
>Did a rpm --initdb
>
>Now after trying to install the forst package, rpm complains
>about the following and core dumps:
>
>
>andreas AT AKLEMM ~
>$ rpm -i /dos/software/cygwin/mktemp-1.5-1.i386-cygwin.rpm
>failed to open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
>assertion "fd && fd->magic == FDMAGIC" failed: file "rpmio.c", line 428
>      0 [sig] rpm 792 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to rpm.exe.stackdump
>Aborted (core dumped)
>
>Any idea why ? Or is perhaps rpm not recommended ?

Please contact the *owner of the package*.  This mailing list has nothing
to do with that site.

cgf

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