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[Dan Goodman <Dan.Goodman@xxxxxxxx>]

Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 05:04:00PM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
>   
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:50:25AM -0400, 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.)?
> > >       
> > The update is broken, it tries to replace a directory with a symlink.
> > Unfortunately that's an operation that rpm doesn't support.
> >
> > zypper rm tomcat6
> > zypper in tomcat6
> >
> > should do the trick. (But save your tomcat configuration changes
> > first.)
> >     
>
> Sorry, bad advice. That deletes too many packages. It should read
>
>     rpm -e --nodeps tomcat6
>     zypper in tomcat6
>
> Cheers,
>   Michael.
>
>   
Will do this in a bit, after I give people  bit more time to look at this.

I have not made any tomcat config changes yet, but just for drill, where
are they stored?

Is the following what I should be saving off, then restoring?
crustacean:/etc/tomcat6 # ls -la
total 107
drwxr-xr-x   3 root   root     536 Jul  1 11:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 192 root   root   14984 Jul  1 10:03 ..
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
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root      27 Jul  1 11:11 Catalina;4a4b7cb8 ->
/var/cache/tomcat6/Catalina
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root    8690 Feb 10 09:23 catalina.policy
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root    3665 Feb 10 09:23 catalina.properties
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root    1396 Feb 10 09:23 context.xml
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root    3664 Feb 10 09:23 logging.properties
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root    6460 Feb 10 09:23 server.xml
-rw-rw----   1 root   tomcat  1107 Feb 10 09:23 tomcat-users.xml
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root    1457 Feb 10 09:24 tomcat6.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root   50106 Feb 10 09:23 web.xml

And should I manually remove the symlinks and not restore them, as I
suspect?

Also, the subdir Catalina appears to contain only package supplied
files. I am correct that the local configs are confined to /etc/tomcat6
itself, with none in /etc/tomcat6/Catalina (assuming I had made any
local configs)?

crustacean:/etc/tomcat6/Catalina # ls -la *
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat tomcat 248 May 13 08:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat tomcat  80 May 13 08:43 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 362 Jan  7 15:51 struts-blank.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 378 Jan  7 15:51 struts-documentation.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 366 Jan  7 15:51 struts-example.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 368 Jan  7 15:51 struts-examples.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 390 Jan  7 15:51 struts-tiles-documentation.xml

And lastly, I have been replying only to the list. If anyone wants me to
include them with direct replies, please let me know and I will do so.

Dan
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