Hi,
I managed to get the problem sorted... It turned out to be the settings
of the file attributes...

I changed them using
[CODE]
[root@ root]# chattr -ais [B]<filename>[/B]
[/CODE]
and it fixed my problem after changing the ownership and group back to
root...

Thanks for your help

Mark Starmer

http://www.worldstadia.com
markstarmer@markstarmer.co.uk wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having a problem updating my current version of core utils to
> coreutils-5.2.1-48.1.i386.rpm - taken from the fedora updates page and
> I am encountering the following error...
>
> # rpm -Uvh coreutils-5.2.1-48.1.i386.rpm
> warning: coreutils-5.2.1-48.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
> 4f2a6fd2
>
> Preparing...                 ########################################
###
> [100%]
>    1:coreutils               ########################################
###
> [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /bin/ls: cpio: rename failed
> - Operat
> ion not permitted
>
> I am using fedora 4 on intel platform... The same process failed in the
> past when trying to use up2date... There is no version of yum currently
> installed on the box...
>
> Has anybody encountered this problem before? Any idea how to resolve?
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Mark Starmer
>
> http://www.worldstadia.com

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