Just the same. Yesterday and today too.
Installation von kernel-default-devel-3.1.0-46.2 fehlgeschlagen:
(mit --nodeps --force) Fehler: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM fehlgeschlagen: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/vmlinux-3.1.0-46-default.gz;4ebbcc00: cpio: read failed - Bad file descriptor
This seems to affect only the ‘kernel-default’ packages. The ‘kernel-desktop’ packages for 3.1.0-46.2 install just fine. So a quick workaround is to switch to the desktop version for now so zypper dup completes, and switch back after the next kernel update.
Doesn’t work. The kernel-default-devel package is affected. It’s only installed if you install the kernel development pattern, or the kernel-sources. I run kernel-desktop, have the development pattern installed, and still need the kernel-default-devel package + I see the error. In the meantime all other kernel-packages have been upgraded. Anyone reported a bug yet?
Actually all 3 of the kernel-default packages are affected (base, devel and just plain kernel-default) - one of my systems has both kernel flavors so I tried each manually - they all fail the same way. What you say makes sense - I made the switch on my laptop that doesn’t have the kernel development pattern, so didn’t have the extra dependency. My original workaround would still get people through their updates if they happen to be running the default kernel but not the development pattern. I suppose another workaround would be to temporarily remove the development related packages. There’s only a few of them, so it’s easy enough to reinstall them once this is fixed.
A bug report seemed unnecessary since this is a pretty obvious error (and quite rare at that). I expected a fix to come pretty quickly. Guess I was wrong. QA for package updates must not require a successful install, just successful build and packaging.
But OM*G where is kernel-source 3.1.0-46.2? With the next reboot I will have to rebuild NVidia blob, but… I have no sources of 3.1.0-46.2, it means that I will not see my ugly gnome3 :’(
The fault has been reported on the factory mailing list and has been ascribed to “Now it’s all being rebuild due to util-linux change. So it will fix itself after some time hopefully.”
I suppose we just stay away from it for a while.
WRT expecting same versions, we have been there before with a minor kernel update (but with no errors) as you may recall from an older tumbleweed thread I started: No kernel-source update for 3.0.4-43.2?. So it’s probably no real issue.
See the link I provided in my previous post re “no kernel-source update” before in tumbleweed, in particular Post #6. You may not need to rebuild, hopefully.
I found this out: I installed kernel-syms a while ago, when I was trying to support someone. Attempting to deinstall kernel-default-devel gave a dependency error, saying it needed deinstallation of kernel-syms as well. I accepted, done.
Another thing: I hadn’t noticed the missing kernel-source package, the new kernel was in a huge pile of updates, so I just checked /boot/grub/menu.lst for correct entries, rebooted into runlevel 3, reinstalled the nvidia driver, no problems at all (so far). Indeed looks like no real issue, at least not a show stopper.
They already fixed it, 3.1.0-46.3 installed successfully.
@consused, previously I got error in installing the as below in zypper
Installing: kernel-default-devel-3.1.0-46.2 [error]
Installation of kernel-default-devel-3.1.0-46.2 failed:
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/vmlinux-3.1.0-46-default.gz;4ebc79e8: cpio: read failed - Bad file descriptor
it was 46.2. Without checking of what version I am upgraded just now via zypper, in YaST it stated that my current is kernel-default-devel-3.1.0-46.3 installed.
