Bug 2229907

Summary:	chkconfig fails to upgrade giving an error
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sameh Attia <sattia>
Component:	chkconfig	Assignee:	Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	38	CC:	jamacku, lnykryn, msekleta
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Description Sameh Attia 2023-08-08 07:37:48 UTC

When upgrading chkconfig to version 1.25-1 it fails with 'Error: Transaction failed'

chkconfig-1.24-1.fc38.x86_64                                                                                         chkconfig-1.25-1.fc38.x86_64                                                                                        




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make sure chkconfig version prior to 1.25-1 is installed
2.try to upgrade to 1.25-1
3.
Actual Results:  
Failed:
  chkconfig-1.24-1.fc38.x86_64                                                                                         chkconfig-1.25-1.fc38.x86_64                                                                                        

Error: Transaction failed


Expected Results:  
chkconfig upgrades to 1.25

When attempted to do it with rpm command I got the below error:

[root@sattia ~]# rpm -Uvh chkconfig-1.25-1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
Verifying...                          ################################# [100%]
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:chkconfig-1.25-1.fc38            ################################# [ 50%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/init.d;64d1f0a8: cpio: File from package already exists as a directory in system
error: chkconfig-1.25-1.fc38.x86_64: install failed
error: chkconfig-1.24-1.fc38.x86_64: erase skipped

Comment 1 Lukáš Nykrýn 2023-08-08 10:45:12 UTC

Unfortunately, this is not a problem in chkconfig. Something else created the /etc/init.d directory. On Fedora, /etc/init.d should be a symlink to /etc/rc.d/init.d.

[lnykryn@notas ~]$ readlink /etc/init.d
rc.d/init.d


But you can fix it manually.
Move the content of /etc/init.d to  /etc/rc.d/init.d, delete the directory and create the symlink.

Comment 2 Sameh Attia 2023-08-08 12:29:21 UTC

Thanks..I did it as per your suggestion and it worked. It was also breaking Plasma Discover to complete the upgrade and it worked like a charm also.