Re: XD2 Installation Error

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 18:36 -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In order to upgrade Evolution, I attempted to install XD2 on RH 8.0 on
> an Intel 386 machine and get the following error:
> 
> The installer was unable to install all of the required packages on your
> system.
> 
> Please mail the full text of this error to <[email protected]>.
> 
> Verification of 'gnome-system-monitor' failed
> 
> installer-ng 1.2.6 on Red Hat Linux 8.0
> 
> 
> Here's what was in the install log:
> ...
> gpg: you have to start GnuPG again, so it can read the new options file
> Aug 11 18:30:52 Verification of 'gnome-system-monitor' failed
> Aug 11 18:30:52 Transaction failed: Verification of
> 'gnome-system-monitor' failed
> Aug 11 18:30:52 id=10 COMPLETE 'Package transaction' time=69s (failed)
> Aug 11 18:30:52 id=219 COMPLETE 'Downloading package
> http://ximian.secsup.org/ximian-evolution/redhat-80-i386/aspell-de-0.50.2-0.ximian.5.1.noarch.rpm' time=73s (finished)
> 
> Any idea what the problem is ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Hal

My guess: the installer includes a statically linked library for http
transfer which is known to have had race bugs, and it hasn't been built
against a new version for some time.  It's possible this race bug
resulted in a corrupted file, which the installer recognized as
corrupted and refused to install.

There's a good chance that trying the install a second time would work.
You might want to rm -f /var/cache/redcarpet/packages/gnome-system-
monitor* (to make sure it doesn't try to use the corrupt one again).

-Mark Gordon

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