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Old 18th September 2004, 09:35 AM
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Apt and Synaptic error: Invalid Argument

Hey everybody! I'm new to Linux, and I'm having problems updating applications through Apt and Synaptic i.e.

Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org fedora/2/i386/updates mozilla 37:1.7.2-0.2.0 [94 17kB]
Get:2 http://mirrors.kernel.org fedora/2/i386/updates samba 0:3.0.7-2.FC2 [14.1M B]
Get:3 http://mirrors.kernel.org fedora/2/i386/updates samba-common 0:3.0.7-2.FC2 [4340kB]
Fetched 27.9MB in 4m16s (109kB/s)
Checking GPG signatures...
Committing changes...
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:mozilla ########################################### [ 33%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/mozilla: cpio: lsetfilecon f ailed - Invalid argument
2:samba ########################################### [ 67%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb: cpio: lsetfilec on failed - Invalid argument
3:samba-common ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/rc.d/init.d/winbind: cpio: lsetf ilecon failed - Invalid argument
W: Some errors occurred while running transaction

Anybody have any ideas or answers as to why this is happening? I'm a newbie so please point me in the right direction. Thanks.
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Old 18th September 2004, 11:08 AM
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have you consider using yum, it will save you some headaches!

go here and read this and use sample given AND dont forget to import RPM KEY
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Old 19th September 2004, 12:05 PM
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I have an question for you, and thanks for your help on that last one. I'm trying to update packages with yum now, but when it finishes and I reboot, Fedora won't boot up. Any suggestions?
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You mean you upgraded the kernel? What's the problem when booting up that prevents FC to boot?
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