Description of problem: (pre-)upgrading of F-14 to F-15 fails when unpacking nspr. There seems to be some noise in filename. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): * nspr-4.8.8-1.fc15.i686 How reproducible: * 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Perform a preupgrade from F-14 to F-15 Actual results: Anaconda: "[-] Error Installing Package " " A fatal error occurred when installing nspr " " package. .... " " Installation cannot continue " " [ Exit Installer ] " From /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log ... ... Upgrading nspr-4.8.8-1.fc15.i686 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /lib/lib/nspr4.so;4df4f495: cpio: read failed - Resource temporarily unavailable Expected results: The upgrade should not fail(!) Additional info: This error looks similar to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693394 There are no other exceptionally things in the logs - except an totally unrelated issue of overly verbose chatter from a very insistent dbus-daemon / ModemManager. There are 100's of messages like: "NOTICE dbus-daemon: [system] Activating service 'org.freedesktop.ModemManager' failed Cannot lanuch daemon..." (Why ModemManager is needed at this point is beyond me...)
It is not similar - #693394 failed because the directory was not present (and that was the issue caused by systemd changes in filesystem package), this one seems to be different ... I don't think this is issue in filesystem package, I'll go with nspr as the starting point.
(In reply to comment #1) > It is not similar - #693394 failed because the directory was not present (and > [...] The two errors look similar in the sense that the symptoms are the same. But you are right it is not the same root cause. - I just figured that the problem is that a lot of packages was truncated: [yum]# ls preupgrade-updates/packages/ -So | tail -14 -rw-r--r--. 2 root 10732 May 25 05:18 adwaita-gtk2-th[...]-1.fc15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 7380 Jun 12 15:24 gcc-4.6.0-9.fc15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 7380 Jun 12 15:24 gcc-c++-4.6.0-9.fc15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 7380 Jun 12 15:24 gcc-gfortran-4.6.0-9.fc15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 7380 Jun 12 15:24 gcc-java-4.6.0-9.fc15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 7380 Jun 12 15:24 gdb-7.2.90.20110525-38.fc15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 7380 Jun 12 15:24 gdm-3.0.4-1.fc15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 7380 Jun 12 15:24 gdm-plugin-fingerpri[...]c15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 7380 Jun 12 15:24 gedit-3.0.2-2.fc15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 7380 Jun 12 15:24 gedit-plugins-3.0.2-2.fc15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 0 Jun 12 15:48 gnome-devel-doc[...]1.fc15.noarch.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 0 Jun 12 16:23 imsettings-1.2.3-1.fc15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 0 Jun 12 16:52 kernel-headers-[...]-30.fc15.i686.rpm -rw-r--r--. 2 root 0 Jun 12 19:08 nspr-devel-4.8.8-1.fc15.i686.rpm So I assume the but is related to the preupgrade - i the sense it didn't catch the error before suggesting to upgrade the system - or a better error message. I can't find any indication of why the files should be truncated.
As concerned I am about preupgrade doen't notice/check that all the packages are downloaded completely before barfing random noise when things go wrong. I am even more puzzled about: # rpmverify -p --nodeps --nofiles preupgrade/gstreamer-pl[...].fc15.i686.rpm warning: preupgrade/gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15.i686.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 069c8460: NOKEY and then # rpm -Uvh preupgrade/gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15.i686.rpm warning: preupgrade/gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15.i686.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 069c8460: NOKEY Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:gstreamer-plugins-base ########################################### [100%] error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstsubparse.so;4df5ca7f: cpio: read failed - Bad file descriptor So, rpmverify says "OK!" to the package, which is in fact broken! Reminds me about: "If carpenters built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization"
Switching the component to rpm...
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