how did I brea yum?

[Greg Woods]

I have been using yum since it was first introduced and I've never seen
this one before. I can't get past it and I can no longer do any updates.
Any time I try to update anything, I get this error:

Running Transaction
  Updating       : rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
1/2 
Error unpacking rpm package rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/rdesktop;4cf66925:
cpio: open
rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686 was supposed to be removed but is not!

Failed:
  rdesktop.i686
0:1.6.0-9.fc14                                                  

Complete!

(The output looks normal up to that point).

Anybody seen this before?

This is an i686 machine (dual core Pentium 4) which I recently upgraded
from 12->13->14, but I had done several updates before this started
happening.

--Greg

how did I brea yum? [partially SOLVED]

[Greg Woods]

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 15:06 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
>  On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:52 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
>  > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:35 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  > 
>  > > > Error unpacking rpm package rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
>  > > > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/rdesktop;4cf66925:
>  > > > cpio: open
>  > > > rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686 was supposed to be removed but is not!
>  > > >
>  > > > Failed:
>  > > >  rdesktop.i686
>  > > > 0:1.6.0-9.fc14
>  > > >
>  > > > Complete! 

I haven't seen this since the pre-journaled-filesystem days, but my root
file system was corrupt. Rebooting the system (and fsck'ing the root
file system) has fixed a lot of this. I can now run updates but I still
get dependency errors like this:

ktorrent-4.0.4-1.fc14.i686 has missing requires of libktcore.so.11

This was fixed by installing the ktorrent-libs package.

So I am now back in a more familiar dependency hell (not seen since the
pre-yum days).

--Greg

[JB]

JB <jb.1234abcd <at> gmail.com> writes:

>  ...  
Tried this ?

# rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
# rpm --rebuilddb

JB

how did I brea yum? [SOLVED]

[Greg Woods]

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:09 -0700, stan wrote:
>   Is it possible your hard disk is failing? 
It's possible I suppose, but it still passes SMART tests. In any case,
#1 on the agenda is doing an immediate full backup.

I finally got rid of all the errors with a convoluted process. I ran
"yum update" and ran into dependency problems trying to update the
"qt"
packages. So I run "yum --skip-broken update" which successfully updated
everything except the qt packages. So I next ran "package-cleanup
--cleandupes" which removed just about everything that depends on qt
(most of KDE), then manually reinstalled the KDE apps that I use
(kdegames, amarok, k3b) which pulled in the necessary dependencies, and
finally yum appears to be behaving normally.

--Greg

[JB]

Greg Woods <woods <at> ucar.edu> writes:

>  ... 
 
Just a few quick suggestions.

Check any pending config files updates (.rpmsave, .rpmnew,  etc):
# find /etc -iname "*.rpm*"

Check anything unusual in plug-ins, protections, etc.
This will be shown in the top 2-4 lines of e.g.
$ yum list rdesktop  

Turn on debugging or error levels when executing failing commands.
$ man yum
...
-d [number]
    Sets the debugging level to [number] - turns up or down the amount of
    things that are printed. Practical range: 0 - 10
    Configuration Option: debuglevel 
-e [number]
    Sets the error level to [number] Practical range 0 - 10. 0 means print
    only critical errors about which you must be told. 1 means print all
    errors, even ones that are not overly important. 1+ means print more
    errors (if any) -e 0 is good for cron jobs.
    Configuration Option: errorlevel 
...

Give this a shot:
$ man yum
...
update
...
If the --obsoletes flag is present yum will include package obsoletes in
 its calculations - this makes it better for distro-version changes, for
 example: upgrading from somelinux 8.0 to somelinux 9. 
...
--obsoletes
    This option only has affect for an update, it enables yum's obsoletes
    processing logic. For more information see the update command above.
    Configuration Option: obsoletes 
...

Please verify format of this entry (I am on a different OS right now ...).
# yum --help
# yum --obsoletes update

You can even run the above with this option:
--noplugins
    Run with all plugins disabled.
    Configuration Option: plugins

# yum --noplugins --obsoletes update

JB

[stan]

On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:06:05 -0700
Greg Woods <woods(a)ucar.edu&gt; wrote:

>  I did try running "package-cleanup --orphans". rdesktop
> does not show
>  up in the list. I'm not sure what this is supposed to show; there are
>  about 30 packages in the output. 
These are packages that come from repositories that you don't have
active anymore.

>  
>  I thought about trying to erase the old package and install fresh, but
>  the first thing that comes up is that there are other packages
>  (kdenetwork) that depend on rdesktop. This already leads me to believe
>  that proceeding this way will not work, since rdesktop not the entire
>  problem but only one example, but for diagnostic sake I thought I
>  could take one more step, and so tried "rpm -e rdesktop kdenetwork",
>  and the output from that is another weird error: 
There is a response to another thread on the list that deals well with
this. You can read it here.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-December/387966.html

The fact that your root fs was corrupted makes all of the above beside
the point.  Is it possible your hard disk is failing?

[Greg Woods]

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:52 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
>  On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:35 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  
>  > > Error unpacking rpm package rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
>  > > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/rdesktop;4cf66925:
>  > > cpio: open
>  > > rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686 was supposed to be removed but is not!
>  > >
>  > > Failed:
>  > >  rdesktop.i686
>  > > 0:1.6.0-9.fc14
>  > >
>  > > Complete! 
What makes this worse is that I stupidly forgot to make a full backup
after I did the 12->13->14 upgrade, so I have no easy path back to a
working system. I would have to restore the F12 system from backup, then
do the whole upgrade over again. Might actually be easier to do a clean
install, then try to recover, but I do have an awful lot of local tweaks
that would take a very long time to completely recreate, so I would
really not want to have to do a fresh install.

No file systems are anywhere near full.

I have tried "yum clean all" and even removing the whole rpm database:

# rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
# rpm --rebuilddb

The immutable bit is not set on /usr/bin:

lsattr /usr | grep bin
lsattr: Operation not supported While reading flags on /usr/tmp
lsattr: Operation not supported While reading flags on /usr/local
----------I---- /usr/bin
----------I---- /usr/sbin

I did try running "package-cleanup --orphans". rdesktop does not show up
in the list. I'm not sure what this is supposed to show; there are about
30 packages in the output.

I thought about trying to erase the old package and install fresh, but
the first thing that comes up is that there are other packages
(kdenetwork) that depend on rdesktop. This already leads me to believe
that proceeding this way will not work, since rdesktop not the entire
problem but only one example, but for diagnostic sake I thought I could
take one more step, and so tried "rpm -e rdesktop kdenetwork", and the
output from that is another weird error:

# rpm -e rdesktop kdenetwork
error: error creating temporary file /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.9dsVW0: Invalid
argument
error: Couldn't create temporary file for %
postun(kdenetwork-7:4.5.3-2.fc14.i686): Invalid argument

> From this it looks like something is very badly corrupted, but the
system is working aside from not being able to run yum or rpm. Although
I do not know if it will reboot properly if I shut it down.

--Greg

[stan]

>  On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:52 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: 
>  > > > Error unpacking rpm package
> rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
>  > > > error: unpacking of archive failed on
>  > > > file /usr/bin/rdesktop;4cf66925: cpio: open
>  > > > rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686 was supposed to be removed but is
>  > > > not! 
This suggests to me that the current package is fc12 and it was supposed
to be removed by the upgrade, but wasn't.

If you install the yum-utils package and run 
package-cleanup --orphans
does the package show up?

Does it work if you remove rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686, and then install
it from the F14 repositories?

You might have to force the uninstall if it drags along lots of
dependencies.

[JB]

Greg Woods <woods <at> ucar.edu> writes:

>  ...  
Possibly:

http://linuxhostingsupport.net/blog/error-unpacking-of-archive-failed-on-...

JB

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:52 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
>  On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:35 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  
>  > > Error unpacking rpm package rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
>  > > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/rdesktop;4cf66925:
>  > > cpio: open
>  > > rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686 was supposed to be removed but is not!
>  > >
>  > > Failed:
>  > >  rdesktop.i686
>  > > 0:1.6.0-9.fc14
>  > >
>  > > Complete!
>  
>  > 
>  > Maybe it's a corrupted RPM file? Try:
>  > 
>  > yum clean packages
>  > 
>  > and see if that helps.
>  
>  My apologies, I should have mentioned that I already did "yum clean
>  all", and this error occurs no matter which package I try to update
>  (rdesktop is just one example). I went ahead and ran "yum clean
>  packages" anyway and tried the update again, but it made no difference. 
Out of space in filesystem?

poc

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Greg Woods <woods(a)ucar.edu&gt; wrote:
>  I have been using yum since it was first introduced and I've
> never seen
>  this one before. I can't get past it and I can no longer do any updates.
>  Any time I try to update anything, I get this error:
>
>  Running Transaction
>   Updating       : rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
>  1/2
>  Error unpacking rpm package rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
>  error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/rdesktop;4cf66925:
>  cpio: open
>  rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686 was supposed to be removed but is not!
>
>  Failed:
>   rdesktop.i686
>  0:1.6.0-9.fc14
>
>  Complete!
>
>  (The output looks normal up to that point).
>
>  Anybody seen this before?
>
>  This is an i686 machine (dual core Pentium 4) which I recently upgraded
>  from 12->13->14, but I had done several updates before this started
>  happening. 
Maybe it's a corrupted RPM file? Try:

yum clean packages

and see if that helps.

Richard

[Greg Woods]

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:35 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:

>  > Error unpacking rpm package rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
>  > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/rdesktop;4cf66925:
>  > cpio: open
>  > rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686 was supposed to be removed but is not!
>  >
>  > Failed:
>  >  rdesktop.i686
>  > 0:1.6.0-9.fc14
>  >
>  > Complete! 
>  
>  Maybe it's a corrupted RPM file? Try:
>  
>  yum clean packages
>  
>  and see if that helps. 
My apologies, I should have mentioned that I already did "yum clean
all", and this error occurs no matter which package I try to update
(rdesktop is just one example). I went ahead and ran "yum clean
packages" anyway and tried the update again, but it made no difference.

--Greg