Retrying: magic file / invalid type 20 in mconvert()?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Feb 1 17:12:31 UTC 2006


Karen Pease wrote:
> I sent this to the list before and it didn't get a response.  Does anyone have 
> a clue what is going on here?
> 
> 	- Karen
> 
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> 
> Subject: magic file / invalid type 20 in mconvert()?
> Date: Monday 30 January 2006 02:08 pm
> From: Karen Pease <meme at daughtersoftiresias.org>
> To: fedora-extras-list at redhat.com
> 
> I have absolutely no clue what this means.  Doing a local "make i386" while
> attempting to solve a problem that used to just manifest on the plague
> servers:
> 
> Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77844
> + umask 022
> + cd /home/meme/code/fedora/nethack-vultures/FC-3
> + cd vultures-1.11.2
> +
> DOCDIR=/var/tmp/nethack-vultures-1.11.2-3-root-meme/usr/share/doc/nethack-vul
> tures-1.11.2 + export DOCDIR
> + rm -rf
> /var/tmp/nethack-vultures-1.11.2-3-root-meme/usr/share/doc/nethack-vultures-1
> .11.2 + /bin/mkdir -p
> /var/tmp/nethack-vultures-1.11.2-3-root-meme/usr/share/doc/nethack-vultures-1
> .11.2 + cp -pr nethack/README nethack/dat/license nethack/dat/history
> nethack/dat/cmdhelp nethack/dat/help nethack/dat/opthelp nethack/dat/wizhelp
> /var/tmp/nethack-vultures-1.11.2-3-root-meme/usr/share/doc/nethack-vultures-1
> .11.2 + cp -pr slashem/readme.txt slashem/history.txt slashem/slamfaq.txt
> vultures/gamedata/manual/
> /var/tmp/nethack-vultures-1.11.2-3-root-meme/usr/share/doc/nethack-vultures-1
> .11.2 + exit 0
> error: magic_file(ms,
> "/var/tmp/nethack-vultures-1.11.2-3-root-meme/usr/games/vulturesclaw/Guideboo
> k.txt") failed: invalid type 20 in mconvert()
> rpmbuild: rpmfc.c:1229: rpmfcClassify: Assertion `ftype != ((void *)0)'
> failed.
> make: *** [i386] Aborted
> 
> I'm fairly new to the process of building RPMs for Fedora Extras.  What does
> this even mean?

Is this repeatable? The current nethack-vultures package in cvs for FC-3 
builds OK in mock for FC-3 i386 for me.

Paul.




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