From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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David L wrote:
I just tried to run up2date on my FC4 system and got an error during
installation:
There was a fatal RPM install error. The message was:
There was a rpm unpack error installing the package:
kde-i18n-Polish-3.5.0-0.1.fc4
I selected the only available option - "OK" and it exited up2date (it
didn't just abort installing that one package). So I tried to run up2date
again and it found one new package to download (presumably one that was
changed during the 2 hours I had been running the previous up2date). It
installed that new package, but didn't continue installing other
downloaded packages where it left off. Now I suspect I have a half
updated system. Some of the packages that were updated no longer work...
for example thunderbird no longer works. How do I recover from this?
[snip]
If up2date exited before completing its duty, you will have quite a few
errors with libraries being updated for programs that did not get updated
and require the new library.
I would change to your /var/spool/up2date directory and ensure that there
is no kernel related rpms located in the directory. If there is some kernel
related rpms, move them out of the way or run 'rpm -ivh kern*.rpm followed
by rm kernel*.rpm.
There are several kernel-related rpms:
/var/spool/up2date/kernel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4.i686.rpm
/var/spool/up2date/kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4.i686.rpm
/var/spool/up2date/kernel-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4.i686.rpm
/var/spool/up2date/kernel-doc-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4.noarch.rpm
/var/spool/up2date/kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.i686.rpm
After the install only packages are installed and moved out ot the way, run
'rpm --replacefiles --replacepkgs *.rpm' from the /var/spool/up2date
directory.
What's an "install only package" and how do I install them?
To figure out which of the rpms that I downloaded today were successfully
installed, I tried this and greped for "already installed" in the output
file:
find . -name "*.rpm" -mtime -1 -exec rpm -ivh --test \{\} \; >& /tmp/rpmout
Then I moved all of the rpm files that claimed to be already installed and
then installed the rest like this:
find . -name "*.rpm" -mtime -1 -exec rpm -ivh \{\} \;
The same one that failed before failed with this message:
rpm -ivh kde-i18n-Polish-3.5.0-0.1.fc4.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ###########################################
[100%]
1:kde-i18n-Polish ###########################################
[100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/common:
cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
But AFAICT, everything is working again. But this seems to be a pretty
cumbersome process... shouldn't up2date just have a "continue" button?!
Thanks for the help...
David
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