Error: unpacking of archive failed on file : cpio: Archive..

Hi All,
I am struck up with a strange problem with the rpmbuild and rpm tools.
I have a particular source tree that has the whole configuration
scripts and the Makefiles inside. When I do a rpmbuild the rpm package
is built and no error is returned.

But when I try to install the package the cpio returns an error that
the Archive header is not right. Find below the commands and the
responses
Rpmbuild -bb Specfile - returns successful and writes both the
debug rpm and the binary rpm in the RPM/arch directory.
Rpm -Uhv rpmfile - returns error due to archive header problem
Preparing... ########################################### [100]
StoreVaultCLI ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file ./usr/bin/svmcli: cpio:
Archive file not in header
But when I try to extract the files from the rpm manually the
extraction works without any problem.
[root@lnx176-107 rpm]# rpm2cpio rpmfile | cpio -i
1783 blocks
[root@lnx176-107 rpm]# rpm2cpio rpmfile | cpio -t
../usr/bin/svmcli
../CLI-2.0.0/license.txt
../CLI-2.0.0/svmcli.8
1783 blocks
[root@lnx176-107 rpm]#
There is some problem that I am not able to solve here. Could you guys
help me out??

Thanks,
KK

krishna.ramdass RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:
> Find below the commands and the
> responses
> Rpmbuild -bb Specfile - returns successful and writes both the
> debug rpm and the binary rpm in the RPM/arch directory.
> Rpm -Uhv rpmfile - returns error due to archive header problem

What is 'Rpmbuild' and 'Rpm'? Some your private aliases/shell
functions with an "extra magic"?

> Preparing... ########################################### [100]
> StoreVaultCLI ########################################### [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file ./usr/bin/svmcli: cpio:
> Archive file not in header

Did you check this package with 'rpm -K rpmfile'? What actually is
listed by 'rpm -qvlp rpmfile'? Did you try 'rpm -Uhvvv rpmfile' and
what it gave you back?

> But when I try to extract the files from the rpm manually the
> extraction works without any problem.
> [root@lnx176-107 rpm]# rpm2cpio rpmfile | cpio -i
> 1783 blocks

The above precisely skips that header where supposedly you have problems
and/or discrepancy with a content of an rpm archive.

> [root@lnx176-107 rpm]# rpm2cpio rpmfile | cpio -t
> ./usr/bin/svmcli
.....
If you managed to stick there some extra whitespace in names
this will be hard to see on such listings.

> There is some problem that I am not able to solve here.

The first guess is that you messed up in some way your spec file. Quite
likely you had complaints in a build process which you have chosen to
ignore. There is 'rpmlint' which helps to check specs sanity. Another
possibilty which cames to mind close to the top of a list is that your
version of 'rpmbuild' is buggy; or maybe a build chain which is screwy.
Did you check for updates?

Michal