Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1555 mails)

[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.
>
>   
Tried that. 2nd step fails with:

The following NEW package is going to be installed:
tomcat6

Overall download size: 74.0 K. After the operation, additional 176.0 K
will be used.
Continue? [YES/no]: y
Retrieving package tomcat6-6.0.18-16.2.1.noarch (1/1), 74.0 K (176.0 K
unpacked)
Retrieving: tomcat6-6.0.18-16.2.1.noarch.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]: A
Problem occured during or after installation or removal of packages:
Installation aborted by user

Please see the above error message for a hint.

Looks like I still have remnants of the failed upgrade that are in the way.

When time permits again, I will try removing all the symbolic links,
then repeat, unless someone says I should do something else.

Also, I'm still unclear as to whether or not the reopening of the bug as
mentioned earlier takes away the need for a bug report from me, or if
you'd still like one.

Dan G.


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