I just recently installed openSUSE 12.1 “Asparagus” on my laptop, an ASUS A53E. I should probably also mention that the main drive in this system is an SSD
I have to say I really like openSUSE, considering it’s the first fedora-based distro I’ve set my hands on.
That being said, I am having problems with updating certain packages… When I try to use the regular software update through the notification, I get an error on certain packages that simply says “Installation aborted by user”. This persists after reboots, after rpm --rebuilddb, trying again, etc…
So I tried going around that update application and attempted to do the updates through YaST. This proved a little more helpful for troubleshooting, but I have no idea where to go from here… In YaST, I get the following error on every package that won’t install:
I don’t like seeing I/O errors… I’m curious as to whether this is just a bad install or if maybe my SSD is starting to go? that would suck, but I do have a backup drive in case the SSD does decide to die completely
If this is a software thing that I can fix by reconfiguring some file then I’m all for it!
It is not quite clear what you use for those updates, but please do not use apper. Use YaST > Software > Online update to get the official Security and Recommened updates to your official OSS and nonOSS repos.
On 01/12/2012 05:16 PM, hcvv wrote:
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> It is not quite clear what you use for those updates, but please do not
> use apper. Use YaST> Software> Online update to get the official
> Security and Recommened updates to your official OSS and nonOSS repos.
>
>
and the first update (done with YaST Online Update) will patch some
broken stuff…then reboot and it should be smoother (i hear–i must
say, since i’ve not installed 12.1 yet)…
This problem persists when using anything through YaST, as I mentioned in my first post…
The program I was initially using was merely a shortcut to the online update functionality of YaST… (Listed as “Software Update” in Gnome3 > Applications).
This is just one package i’m attempting to install… I will try to install everything but this package, but I doubt it will work, as I’ve already tried it a couple of times…
EDIT: the only package that I was able to get installed singularly was a Pidgin update… the other 4 packages will not install… The packages in question are:
cracklib
xorg-x11
glibc
pm-profiler
All these packages return the same error, but other packages will install with no errors
On 01/12/2012 08:16 PM, fragment137 wrote:
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> The program I was initially using was merely a shortcut to the online
> update functionality of YaST… (Listed as “Software Update” in Gnome3>
> Applications).
i may be wrong (i do not have either gnome or 12.1 installed) but i do
not think that “Software Update” has anything to do with Yast Online
Update…please find YaST in your main menu, launch it and run Online
Update… (i am not talking about the crack package giving you problems,
i am trying to inform you that yast needs to update itself, and i think the “Installation Aborted by User” problem will then be history
if you continue to use only YaST or zypper…
I apologize, I guess I’m not wording my problem correctly…
My system has been updated, including YaST…
A few days later, I received a notification that I had updates and went to install them. Most of them installed (A total of about 50), but the remaining packages were the four listed above, and one or two other ones that I installed individually afterwards.
I have since tried (through YaST) to install these packages, but with the above mentioned error being the only result. I have looked for an update for YaST via “online update”, but the only 4 packages that are displaying are the four listed above… Is there something that I’m missing? I’ve looked all through my settings and can’t seem to find a place to exclusively update YaST…
I also tried re-installing the core YaST package, but with no change.
I believe you will get the same error regardless what you use to install
it: zypper, yast, package kit… because in the end, all have to call “rpm”
to do the actual install.
It does look as a write error on your SSD. I do not know how to verify that.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I was notified of more updates… I went to check out which ones they were, and one of them was for ‘glibc’, mentioned above… I went to try and install that update (along with the others), and glibc is the only update that failed for the same error that I’ve been getting… all the other packages installed without issue…
This is very interesting… I’m going to try taking a look through my file system and see if I can reproduce the problem there.
EDIT: Alright, now I KNOW there’s an issue with that part of my installation… I just went to the folder described by the error (/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/)
I found that I could not manipulate the cracklib.mo file that was in there… couldn’t move it, copy it, (haven’t tried deleting yet, but i’m tempted)… and I have a feeling this may have something to do with it…
All those files with unknown permissions and owners seem to be “ghost” files… You can see them and they take memory and namespace, but you can’t manipulate them at all…
I’ve seen that type of thing before and it’s been unrelated to the integrity of the drive, but it’s still something really screwed up…
I read some threads on this error message. My problem is similar but I am not sure what to do. My situation is:
The upgrade from 12.2 to 12.3 on my Dell Inspiron 6000 is complete (had to fix a few problems) and it is now working fine. However I cannot install updates. I first tried zypper up and got:
Loading repository data...Reading installed packages...
The following package updates will NOT be installed:
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-base libstrigi0 strigi
The following package is going to be upgraded:
glibc-extra
1 package to upgrade.
Overall download size: 52.8 KiB. After the operation, 62.0 B will be freed.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): y
(1/1) Installing: glibc-extra-2.17-4.13.1 ...................................................................................................................................[error]
Installation of glibc-extra-2.17-4.13.1 failed:
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lib/misc/Makefile: cpio: rename failed - Input/output error
error: glibc-extra-2.17-4.13.1.i586: install failed
error: glibc-extra-2.15-22.17.1.i586: erase skipped
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a):
I tried other mirrors from the official list. I tried Yast Update with a similar message and I d/loaded a copy of the above rpm and tried to install. That produced an error message (Installation aborted by user).
After reading the forum I ran
rpm --rebuilddb
twice and rebooted - with no change (but it has helped me in the past). The output from the attempt to install the RPM manually was:
I have five files shown as cipio or cpio, some are executables, some are dated 2013. Any suggestions?
Please disregard signature below (it’s the replacement for the Dell) and I will change the signature in a minute.
