Bug 826497 - kde-filesystem failed to install due to directory/symlink difference, caused preupgrade to abort, unbootable system after
Summary: kde-filesystem failed to install due to directory/symlink difference, caused ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kde-filesystem
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rex Dieter
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-05-30 11:16 UTC by Hin-Tak Leung
Modified: 2013-08-01 09:21 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 09:21:29 UTC
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Description Hin-Tak Leung 2012-05-30 11:16:42 UTC
Description of problem:
kde-filesystem fails to install due to a directory/symbolic link difference somewhere under doc/CN_*/common (was a directory, the package wants symlink to directory above). This cause preupgrade to abort about 1/3 of the way of upgrade, and resulting in an unbootable system.

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I used the virtual console to manually remove the "doc/CN_*/common" directory and do a manual rpm --root=/mnt/sysimage -Uvh /var/cache/yum/preupgrade/kde-filesystem* to allow upgrade to keep going.

More info later, when the upgrade finishes.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2012-05-30 13:34:33 UTC
so, something on your system created that directory, which kde-filesystem is supposed to own.  any idea how it got created?

Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2012-05-30 14:14:11 UTC
I'd guess it got created as an unowned directory by some package which installs something to it without directly nor indirectly requiring kde-filesystem.

Comment 3 Hin-Tak Leung 2012-05-30 17:47:06 UTC
$  find /usr/share/doc/HTML/zh_* -name "common" | xargs --verbose -n 1 rpm -qf
rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/HTML/zh_CN/common 
kde-filesystem-4-39.fc17.x86_64
kde-l10n-Chinese-4.8.3-1.fc17.noarch
rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/HTML/zh_CN/gwenview/common 
kde-l10n-Chinese-4.8.3-1.fc17.noarch
rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/HTML/zh_CN/docs/common 
kde-filesystem-4-39.fc17.x86_64
rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/HTML/zh_HK/common 
kde-filesystem-4-39.fc17.x86_64
rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/HTML/zh_HK/docs/common 
kde-filesystem-4-39.fc17.x86_64
rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/HTML/zh_TW/common 
kde-filesystem-4-39.fc17.x86_64
kde-l10n-Chinese-Traditional-4.8.3-1.fc17.noarch
rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/HTML/zh_TW/docs/common 
kde-filesystem-4-39.fc17.x86_64

I would assume it is a past version of kde-l10n-Chinese ? I only had the problem in zh_CN/docs/common, not on zh_TW or zh_HK. 

$  find /usr/share/doc/HTML/zh_*  | xargs rpm -qf | sort | uniq
kde-filesystem-4-39.fc17.x86_64
kde-i18n-Chinese-3.5.10-16.fc17.noarch
kde-i18n-Chinese-Big5-3.5.10-16.fc17.noarch
kde-l10n-Chinese-4.8.3-1.fc17.noarch
kde-l10n-Chinese-Traditional-4.8.3-1.fc17.noarch


It appears that some of kde 3 can still be installed to co-exist with kde 4, and it also use those directories. I may also had kde platform docs in chinese at some point (if such thing exists/existed).

Anyway, since the problem happened under /usr/share/doc/HTML/zh_CN/docs/common, it has to be some sort of (simplified) Chinese documentation or such.

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