pkgrm problem

From: Jeff D. Allen (allen@cs.dal.ca)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 08:09:41 EST


Background: Solaris 8 2/02 on Sun Fire 4800

I installed a GCC package from sunfreeware.com but realized I hadn;t used an
admin file to install it somewhere other than the default location. So I used
pkgrm to remove it and I got the following:

torch: /data/software/installed$ pkgrm SMCgcc

The following package is currently installed:
   SMCgcc gcc
                   (sparc) 2.95.3

Do you want to remove this package? y
WARNING: Stale lock installed for pkgrm, pkg SMCgcc quit in initial state.
    Removing lock.

## Removing installed package instance <SMCgcc>
(A previous attempt may have been unsuccessful.)
## Verifying package dependencies.
## Processing package information.
pkgrm: ERROR: bad read of contents file
pkgrm: ERROR: pathname=/usr/demo/JAVA1.2/demo/jfc/Notepad/README.txt
pkgrm: ERROR: problem=unable to read content info

1) That file is there and not corrupted

2) It doesn't have anything to do with GCC and wasn't installed by the GCC
   package.

Any thoughts?

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