Bug 186471 - cups %post scriptlet: failed to read link /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or directory
Summary: cups %post scriptlet: failed to read link /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or direc...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: chkconfig
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-23 19:27 UTC by Charles R. Anderson
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:59 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-04-04 03:42:49 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
/var/lib/alternatives/print that causes the problem (863 bytes, text/plain)
2006-03-27 14:25 UTC, Charles R. Anderson
no flags Details

Description Charles R. Anderson 2006-03-23 19:27:58 UTC
Description of problem:

On a system upgraded from RHL 9, I get this error when installing cups:

failed to read link /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1:1.1.23-30.2

How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -e --nodeps cups
2. Note that there is no /usr/bin/lpr
2. yum install cups
3. Above error appears, there is no /usr/bin/lpr still.
  
Actual results:

# rpm -e cups
error: Failed dependencies:
        cups is needed by (installed) libgnomecups-0.2.2-3.2.1.i386
        cups >= 1.1.17-4 is needed by (installed)
system-config-printer-0.6.151-1.i386

# rpm -e cups --nodeps
failed to read link /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or directory
warning: /etc/cups/printers.conf saved as /etc/cups/printers.conf.rpmsave
warning: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf saved as /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.rpmsave
[root@noc1 alternatives]# yum install cups
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core                                                                 [1/3]
updates                                                              [2/3]
extras                                                               [3/3]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for cups to pack into transaction set.
cups-1.1.23-30.2.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 120 kB    00:00
---> Package cups.i386 1:1.1.23-30.2 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 cups                    i386       1:1.1.23-30.2    core              1.6 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 1.6 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): cups-1.1.23-30.2.i 100% |=========================| 1.6 MB    00:00
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
Public key for cups-1.1.23-30.2.i386.rpm is not installed
Retrieving GPG key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
Importing GPG key 0x4F2A6FD2 "Fedora Project <fedora>"
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
Retrieving GPG key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
GPG key at file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY (0xDB42A60E) is already
installedRunning Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: cups                         ######################### [1/1]
failed to read link /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or directory

Installed: cups.i386 1:1.1.23-30.2
Complete!
# ls -l /usr/bin/lpr
ls: /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or directory

Expected results:

The symlinks for alternatives should be set up properly.

Additional info:

#ls -l /etc/alternatives/
total 44
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 23 11:38 etags -> /usr/bin/etags.emacs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Mar 23 11:42 mta -> /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Mar 23 11:42 mta-aliasesman ->
/usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 23 11:42 mta-mailq -> /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Mar 23 11:42 mta-mailqman ->
/usr/share/man/man1/mailq.sendmail.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Mar 23 11:42 mta-newaliases ->
/usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Mar 23 11:42 mta-newaliasesman ->
/usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Mar 23 11:42 mta-pam -> /etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 23 11:42 mta-rmail -> /usr/bin/rmail.sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Mar 23 11:42 mta-sendmail -> /usr/lib/sendmail.sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Mar 23 11:42 mta-sendmailman ->
/usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.sendmail.8.gz

#ls -l /var/lib/alternatives/
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  45 Mar 23 11:38 etags
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 700 Mar 23 11:42 mta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 863 Mar 23 14:26 print

Comment 1 Charles R. Anderson 2006-03-27 14:25:48 UTC
Created attachment 126816 [details]
/var/lib/alternatives/print that causes the problem

When I move this file out of the way, the %post scriptlet alternatives command
succeeds.

Comment 2 petrosyan 2008-03-11 02:43:48 UTC
Fedora Core 5 is no longer maintained. Is this bug still present in Fedora 7 or
Fedora 8?

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 02:13:07 UTC
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