Unable to Install package xorg-x11-font-utils which errors out with, "error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: lstat failed - Too many levels of symbolic links"

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Issue

  • Unable to Install package xorg-x11-font-utils which errors out with, "error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: lstat failed - Too many levels of symbolic links"
# rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-3.x86_64.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:xorg-x11-font-utils    ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: lstat failed - Too many levels of symbolic links

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8

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