cpio failing during update

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 07:28:03PM +0100, bitlord wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:50:12 +0100
> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 10:57:36AM +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > > 
> > > While updating today, cpio failed on me randomly, twice!  I see
> > > errors like this:
> > > 
> > > Scriptlet output:
> > >    1 error: unpacking of archive failed on
> > > file /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/COPYING.LGPLv3;54d881f2: cpio: open 2
> > > error: ffmpeg-2.4.6-2.fc21.x86_64: install failed
> > > 
> > > Scriptlet output:
> > >    1 error: unpacking of archive failed on
> > > file /usr/src/kernels/3.18.5-201.fc21.x86_64/arch/arm/mach-mv78xx0/Kconfig;54d8814e:
> > > cpio: open 2 error: kernel-devel-3.18.5-201.fc21.x86_64: install
> > > failed
> > > 
> > > When I tried updating those two packages again, they succeeded.  I
> > > am wondering if there is a problem that needs fixing, or is this
> > > just chance.
> > 
> > I'm seeing this more and more often.  Is something wrong with my
> > system? How do I debug this?  Increasing the verbosity of dnf does no
> > good. Here is a sample output:

 [...chomp...chomp...chomp...]

> > I don't know why cpio is failing, but dnf should not be completing
> > with a success.  It even reports it successfully upgraded the
> > packages!
> 
> That probably need to be reported as a bug.

Done: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194424

> > Any thoughts?
> > 
> 
> I don't have any solutions for your problem, but do you have any other
> strange issues with your system, crashes ...? Package checksums should
> be verified before updating, so download is "ok". Maybe you can run
> memtest86/+? 

This is a ~1 yr old Thinkpad, I haven't really seen any issues during
this time.  I'll do the memtest check anyway, just in case.

Any ideas so that I can replicate the cpio problem consistently and
investigate would be nice.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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