Subject: Re: rpm: unable to open temp file
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 10:05:27 MST
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Patrick Callahan wrote:
>
> Is there a particular directory on a YDL installed machine the rpm -tb
> command should be done in?
No.
> Is there some directory that has to be created before using rpm -tb?
Sort of... it will require
/usr/src/rpm/{RPMS/ppc,SRPMS,SPECS,BUILD,SOURCES} to work entirely. Those
are all part of the rpm rpm.
> Is there another package or rpm that must be installed before using rpm -tb?
No.
> running as root:
> $ rpm --version
> RPM version 3.0.6
>
> # rpm -tb xfce-3.6.3.tar.gz && rpm -ivh
> Unable to open temp file.
I would like to point out that 'rpm -ivh' doesn't do anything, and will
produce an error message. But you seem to be having a problem before that.
> $ df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda8 99136 37938 56078 40% /
> /dev/hda10 253823 82216 158500 34% /home
> /dev/sda11 59487 42756 13659 76% /root1
> /dev/sda9 59487 11804 44611 21% /var1
> /dev/hda9 99136 34135 59881 36% /var
> /dev/sda12 991124 784940 154984 84% /usr1
> /dev/hda12 2551925 1633679 786290 68% /usr
> /dev/sda14 3982053 801989 2977740 21% /downloads
> /dev/hda6 262134 8172 253962 3% /exchange
Could you check your inodes as well? Also make sure you can make new files
in /tmp (and /var/tmp).
-Hollis
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