I regularly patch my 11.1 o/s via "zypper ref -b" followed by "zypper up". Usually everything goes fine. However, last night tomcat6 was one of the proposed upgrades, and it failed. This morning I repeated my usual procedure, and only tomcat6 was proposed. When it ran, it failed with the message below. Any ideas about how to proceed (info to gather, is it a config problem on my end, etc.)? Here is the dialog produced: The following package is going to be upgraded: tomcat6 Overall download size: 74.0 K. No additional space will be used or freed after the operation. Continue? [YES/no]: y Retrieving package tomcat6-6.0.18-16.2.1.noarch (1/1), 74.0 K (176.0 K unpacked) Retrieving delta: ./rpm/noarch/tomcat6-6.0.18-16.1.1_16.2.1.noarch.delta.rpm, 26.0 K Retrieving: tomcat6-6.0.18-16.1.1_16.2.1.noarch.delta.rpm [done] Applying delta: ./tomcat6-6.0.18-16.1.1_16.2.1.noarch.delta.rpm [done] Installing: tomcat6-6.0.18-16.2.1 [error] Installation of tomcat6-6.0.18-16.2.1 failed: (with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/tomcat6/Catalina: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory Abort, retry, ignore? [A/r/i]: Here is the state of files Cat* in /etc/tomcat: crustacean:/etc/tomcat6 # ls -lad Cat* drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat tomcat 80 May 13 08:43 Catalina lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 30 11:05 Catalina;4a4a29a1 -> /var/cache/tomcat6/Catalina lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 30 16:55 Catalina;4a4a7bc6 -> /var/cache/tomcat6/Catalina lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 30 16:55 Catalina;4a4a7bdb -> /var/cache/tomcat6/Catalina lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 1 10:36 Catalina;4a4b7455 -> /var/cache/tomcat6/Catalina Here is what is at /var/cache/tomcat6: crustacean:/var/cache/tomcat6 # ls -lad . drwxrwxr-x 3 root tomcat 72 May 10 13:21 . crustacean:/var/cache/tomcat6 # ls -lad * drwxrwxr-x 2 root tomcat 48 Feb 10 09:24 temp The directory /var/cat/tomcat6/temp is empty. Here is what I have installed relative to tomcat: crustacean:/ # rpm -qa | grep -i tomcat jakarta-commons-collections-tomcat5-3.2-88.13 tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.18-16.2.1 jakarta-commons-dbcp-tomcat5-1.2.2-88.17 struts-webapps-tomcat6-1.2.9-162.163.2 tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.18-16.2.1 tomcat6-lib-6.0.18-16.2.1 tomcat6-servlet-2_5-api-6.0.18-16.2.1 tomcat6-webapps-6.0.18-16.2.1 jakarta-commons-pool-tomcat5-1.3-1.108 tomcat6-jsp-2_1-api-6.0.18-16.2.1 tomcat6-6.0.18-16.1.1 tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.18-16.2.1 Hope this is the correct level of detail to include. Any help/guidance will be appreciated. Dan G. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org