Description of problem: The python-requests package fails to update/install. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.3.0-3.fc21 How reproducible: Attempt to install python-requests on F21 workstation by running the following command. # yum install python-requests Actual results: The install fails. After confirming that the users wants to proceed, yum outputs the following: Downloading packages: python-requests-2.3.0-3.fc21.noarch.rpm | 90 kB 00:00 Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction (shutdown inhibited) Installing : python-requests-2.3.0-3.fc21.noarch 1/1 Error unpacking rpm package python-requests-2.3.0-3.fc21.noarch error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info: cpio: rename Verifying : python-requests-2.3.0-3.fc21.noarch 1/1 Failed: python-requests.noarch 0:2.3.0-3.fc21 Complete! Expected results: Yum should complete the install without problems. Additional info: The system is running Fedora workstation 21, but was installed as Fedora 18 or 19 (don't remember which). Obviously it's been upgraded a few times. Currently it is completely updated, except for the fact that GNOME wants to have deja-dup-nautilus installed, which depends on python-requests (which can't upgrade/install properly). I'd be happy to provide any further information about this specific system, but unfortunately I don't have another system to test how reproducible this bug is.
Same problem, after I upgraded from F20 to F21 with FedUp.
Is /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info owned by any rpm on your system? rpm -qf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info Is there anything else odd about that file? (Is it a file, or something else?) Does it have the immutable attribute set somehow? The error message is rpm (really cpio) telling you that it failed to replace /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info for some reason.
Hi, I can't update my python-requests package from 2.3.0-3 to 2.5.0-3 because of a similar problem (error: unpacking of archive failed [...] cpio: rename) But it's not the same file (in the error message). I can give you the requested informations but don't know how to retrieve it. Can you give me some shell commands ? Thanks
(In reply to Guillaume AMAT from comment #3) > I can't update my python-requests package from 2.3.0-3 to 2.5.0-3 because of > a similar problem (error: unpacking of archive failed [...] cpio: rename) > > But it's not the same file (in the error message). I'm guessing the error is on /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/chardet? And that is a directory on your system right now? And you see this output from rpm -qf: $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/chardet file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/chardet is not owned by any package That means you have installed requests by some other means than RPM (like sudo pip install ...) and now RPM is failing to replace that directory with a symlink because of an age-old RPM limitation. In that case, the solution is to just remove the requests package and reinstall it with yum. And maybe don't use "sudo pip install" in future :-) sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests sudo yum install python-requests
You were right :) Thanks!
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info isn't owned by any package. However, it is a directory, not a file. From ls: drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 4 2014 requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info Can I just remove it solve the problem, or is there a better way? Pip notes that I do have the package installed, but I can't recall installing it unless it was a dependency or something.
Additional possibly useful information: $ ls -l /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info total 56 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1 Jul 4 2014 dependency_links.txt -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6645 Jul 4 2014 installed-files.txt -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1 Jul 4 2014 not-zip-safe -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32290 Jul 4 2014 PKG-INFO -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3283 Jul 4 2014 SOURCES.txt -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 9 Jul 4 2014 top_level.txt $ ls -l /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ | grep requests drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Aug 3 17:46 requests drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 4 2014 requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32290 Aug 3 17:45 requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info;549b64a4 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32290 Aug 3 17:45 requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info;549b7dbe -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32290 Aug 3 17:45 requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info;549b7dd9 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32290 Aug 3 17:45 requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info;549ba62b -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32290 Aug 3 17:45 requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info;549ee467 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32290 Aug 3 17:45 requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info;549f0c64 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32290 Aug 3 17:45 requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info;549f180d -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32290 Aug 3 17:45 requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg-info;549f199f
Yeah, there is really no bug here. The error message is rpm saying it can't replace this unpackaged directory. The solution is the same as in comment 4. Use "sudo pip uninstall" or just rm -rf the offending unpackaged directory/ies, and then reinstall requests.
As Dan says, there's really no bug on the Fedora package per se. Closing. Thanks for reporting!
Ok, could we implement some more useful warning in RPM, like: Can't replace directory with symlink. Or, at least: cpio: rename() failed Because: cpio: rename Was not very helpful. Except strace/gdb, rpm -qpl new_pkg, etc., what is the proper way to diagnose what is happening in such scenario? (reopening the old bug to have some existing background story)
Same problem if a file tries to substitute a directory: $ rpm -qpl nombre_programa-0.1-1.x86_64.rpm /data/cosa /data/egg-dir/readme /data/otro $ rpm -qpl nombre_programa-0.2-1.x86_64.rpm /data/cosa /data/egg-dir /data/otro # rpm -i nombre_programa-0.1-1.x86_64.rpm # rpm -U nombre_programa-0.2-1.x86_64.rpm error: unpacking of archive failed on file /data/egg-dir: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
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(In reply to Pavel Raiskup from comment #10) > Ok, could we implement some more useful warning in RPM, like: > > Can't replace directory with symlink. > > Or, at least: > > cpio: rename() failed > > Because: > > cpio: rename > > Was not very helpful. > > Except strace/gdb, rpm -qpl new_pkg, etc., what is the proper way to diagnose > what is happening in such scenario? > > (reopening the old bug to have some existing background story) Yes, that make sense and previously rpm was displaying following message: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /test/test: cpio: rename - failed - Is a directory but creating of this message was broken in this commit [1]. Now I am thinking if just fix the regression from commit [1] or improve the message more.
[1] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/a103e87c49b3c7496113cbbc77b622e866fde433
Fixed upstream in the way described in commit message[1]: - For general rename failure display "rename failed -" followed by string representation of errno. This fixes regression from a103e87 - When rename fails with errno ISDIR, show special message: File from package already exists as a directory in system [1] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/082c62a3374bb8e9442de98e664784932a928513 I think the severity of this bug is low so I will close this bug as upstream because it is fixed upstream and this will get into fedora when a new version of rpm will get into fedora. If you really need this fix in the current fedora then please reopen the bug.
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