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[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 16:50:25 Dan Goodman wrote:
> 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.

Please open a  bug report following the instructions given at 
bugs.opensuse.org,

Thanks,
Andreas
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