Description of problem: Post install scriplet cannot create symlinks and therefore shows errors like this: failed to link /usr/share/man/de/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.de.1.gz: No such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fakeroot-1.23-3.fc30 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. dnf install fakeroot 2. see errors in output Actual results: # dnf install fakeroot ... Running scriptlet: fakeroot-1.23-3.fc30.x86_64 failed to link /usr/share/man/de/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.de.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/de/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.de.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/es/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.es.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/es/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.es.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/fr/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.fr.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/fr/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.fr.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/nl/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.nl.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/nl/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.nl.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/pt/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.pt.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/pt/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.pt.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/sv/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.sv.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/sv/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.sv.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/de/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.de.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/de/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.de.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/es/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.es.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/es/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.es.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/fr/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.fr.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/fr/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.fr.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/nl/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.nl.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/nl/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.nl.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/pt/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.pt.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/pt/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.pt.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/sv/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.sv.1.gz: No such file or directory failed to link /usr/share/man/sv/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.sv.1.gz: No such file or directory warning: %post(fakeroot-1.23-3.fc30.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 2 Error in POSTIN scriptlet in rpm package fakeroot Verifying : fakeroot-1.23-3.fc30.x86_64 Verifying : fakeroot-libs-1.23-3.fc30.x86_64 Expected results: no errors
I have reason to believe that this is causing failures in my Kickstart installations with --excludedocs.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle. Changing version to 31.
*** Bug 1754943 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 1696723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Same issue in all releases, I have a fix in the works.
FEDORA-2019-0b2a41480a has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-0b2a41480a
FEDORA-2019-7bb146dea7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-7bb146dea7
FEDORA-2019-f7dd8d9ee0 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 31. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-f7dd8d9ee0
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-0b2a41480a
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-f7dd8d9ee0
fakeroot-1.24-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-63383aac9d
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-7bb146dea7
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
fakeroot-1.24-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.