-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is an old problem that I had on 13.1 and remains on Leap. YaST fails installing a certain package with an error message that explains nothing (sorry, I didn't copy it). Running rpm directly on it explains just a bit more: Telcontar:~ # rpm --install /var/cache/zypp/packages/OBS_Games/noarch/FlightGear-data-2016.2.1-2.1.noarch.rpm error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/doc/packages/FlightGear-data/COPYING;586ff82e: cpio: link error: FlightGear-data-2016.2.1-2.1.noarch: install failed Telcontar:~ # So I try trace. Telcontar:~ # strace -ff -o rpmtrace rpm --install --verbose /var/cache/zypp/packages/OBS_Games/noarch/FlightGear-data-2016.2.1-2.1.noarch.rpm ... It seems the problem is here: open("/usr/share/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/COPYING;586ffa1a", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 20 fcntl(20, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 umask(022) = 0777 write(20, "\t\t GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE"..., 17992) = 17992 close(20) = 0 link("/usr/share/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/COPYING;586ffa1a", "/usr/share/doc/packages/FlightGear-data/COPYING;586ffa1a") = -1 EXDEV (Invalid cross-device link) lstat("/usr/share/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/COPYING;586ffa1a", {st_mode=S_IFREG, st_size=17992, ...}) = 0 unlink("/usr/share/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/COPYING;586ffa1a") = 0 close(19) = 0 munmap(0x7f6916c58000, 4096) = 0 write(2, "error: ", 7) = 7 write(2, "unpacking of archive failed on f"..., 105) = 105 close(18) = 0 write(2, "error: ", 7) = 7 write(2, "FlightGear-data-2016.2.1-2.1.noa"..., 52) = 52 It is trying to link /usr/share/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/COPYING to /usr/share/doc/packages/FlightGear-data/COPYING or the other way round, and it happens that /usr/share/flightgear is a diferent filesystem here⁽¹⁾: /etc/fstab: LABEL=c_usr_gamedta /usr/gamedata reiserfs acl,user_xattr,barrier=flush,relatime 1 4 and /usr/share/flightgear was a symlink to /usr/gamedata/flightgear/ Seeing the problem, I changed to a bind mount: /etc/fstab: /usr/gamedata/flightgear/ /usr/share/flightgear none bind 0 0 with this 'mount' result: /dev/sdd12 on /usr/gamedata type reiserfs (rw,relatime,user_xattr,acl) /dev/sdd12 on /usr/share/flightgear type reiserfs (rw,relatime,user_xattr,acl) but it is not working. Perhaps I should instead make /usr/share/doc/packages/FlightGear-data/ a symlink or bind mount to somewhere in /usr/gamedata. Ideas? I need another view... (1) The reason to use a different filesystem for FlightGear is that the rpm is 1 GB of data consisting of a ton of very small files (and more that can be downloaded), so ideal for reiserfs. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlhwATkACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UlcQCcDIZ+PHauHYthqlri+HeSZBat sosAoJUY4okOcwWIQicPLcKCAqlpKmvD =1X/X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----