Unable to instally any app and unable to delete any repository

oldcpu · October 6, 2015, 7:32pm

I am currently unable to install any application on a 64-bit openSUSE-13.2 with KDE desktop on one of my openSUSE-13.2 PCs. This problem does not exist on my other openSUSE-13.2 PCs.

The error I nominally get (for example a failed attempt to install crafty) with ANY application:


Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/crafty.rc;5613f6ef: cpio: open
error: crafty-23.4-1.3.x86_64: install failed

or from "rpm i … " direct (different app scorpio as example) or "rpm -Uvh … " :


error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/scorpio26;56140038: cpio: open failed - No such file or directory

It does not matter what application I choose. Same error.

I surfed on the error, some said a corrupted rpm. I do not believe the more than a dozen different random apps I choose are corrupted. So it needs to be something else.

I read elsewhere it might be a permissions issue with specific files … but there were no solutions that I could quickly find as relevant - for this occurs on my PC with all files where an instlall is attempted, and not just one file.

I have been trying nothing unusual that I can think of that would lead to this.

Further, another likely related symptom, I can not delete repositories. When ever I try I obtain this error in yast:


Unable to save changes to the repository configuration.
Detais:
[repos-soruce | "URL of repos I am trying to delete" ] Can't delete "URL of repos I am trying to delete"
Try again

It does not matter what repository I try to delete. The problem is the same for all.

I’m running out of ideas. Suggestions ?

wolfi323 · October 6, 2015, 8:46pm

Maybe / is mounted read-only, caused by the latest systemd update?

Your error messages look strikingly similar to this:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/504603-broken-updates-apper-screw-up?p=2731085#post2731085

oldcpu · October 6, 2015, 9:23pm

Could be … I’m scratching my head over this. Some further info:


oldcpu@linux-mtpj:~> df -Th
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
**/dev/sdb5      ext4       48G  8.1G   39G  18% /**
devtmpfs       devtmpfs  7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     7.8G   88K  7.8G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     7.8G  2.2M  7.8G   1% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs     7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb1      vfat      256M   22M  235M   9% /boot/efi
/dev/sda8      ext4      1.7T  1.4T  316G  82% /home
/dev/sda3      ext4       24G  137M   23G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda2      ext4       24G  1.7G   22G   8% /var

where sdb5 is /

and


oldcpu@linux-mtpj:~> cat /etc/fstab
UUID=a3e11907-0165-4f01-b4c1-810029999214 /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
UUID=920507c2-cbbd-46c9-b8e4-ee957e695a39 /var                 ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 2
UUID=6c8b134f-0f7c-4736-ab94-37f0a0942ad0 /tmp                 ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 2
UUID=2b1e462b-8e51-49e7-a9b3-2a933a7fe88d swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
UUID=7EC6-8D89       /boot/efi            vfat       umask=0002,utf8=true  0 0
UUID=f8961aad-eefe-4a9d-9792-f259455334ca /home                ext4       defaults              1 2

and


oldcpu@linux-mtpj:~> mount
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=8170152k,nr_inodes=2042538,mode=755)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
**/dev/sdb5 on / type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)**
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=28,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sdb1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda8 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sda3 on /tmp type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sda2 on /var type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
gvfsd-fuse on /var/run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)

so /sdb5 is mounted as ro (which I think means read only)

Further I note in quoted thread this was suggested.


oldcpu@linux-mtpj:~> systemctl status systemd-remount-fs.service
systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems                                                                                       
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-remount-fs.service; static)                                                                          
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2015-10-06 18:27:38 CEST; 2h 48min ago                                                                             
     Docs: man:systemd-remount-fs.service(8)
           http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems
  Process: 473 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-remount-fs (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 473 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-remount-fs.service

and


oldcpu@linux-mtpj:~> dmesg | grep mount
    1.783771] EXT4-fs (sdb5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: data=ordered
    1.834488] EXT4-fs (sdb5): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered
    1.841039] EXT4-fs (sdb5): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered
    2.156793] EXT4-fs (sdb5): re-mounted. Opts: acl,user_xattr
    3.265913] EXT4-fs (sda8): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
    3.294534] EXT4-fs (sda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: acl,user_xattr
    3.345053] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: acl,user_xattr

although I do not know what that indicates/brings to the table.

I noted in post#29 you suggested:

Login as root (“su” should work too, but I’m not sure, “sudo” will not work with a read-only /) and run “mount / -o rw,remount” to get back a writable filesystem. (or press ‘e’ at the boot menu and remove “ro” from the line starting with “linux” or “linuxefi”)

Then enter YaST->Software Management and revert all red packages with systemd and udev in the name to the previous versions (use the “Versions” tab, or “Update Unconditionally” should work too).

Do you recommend I try this ?

oldcpu · October 6, 2015, 9:40pm

wolfi323, after thinking more about your post, I took a look at YaST and noted there was a roll back available for systemd and udev.

So wolfi323, I rebooted, followed your suggestion quoted above (I adopted the boot to grub2 and press ‘e’ at boot and remove ‘ro’ approach), and then when in the KDE desktop run YaST and rolled back the packages noted and it worked. This was very educational. Thankyou very much.

kensch · October 7, 2015, 3:26pm

On 10/06/2015 03:26 PM, oldcpu wrote:
>
> wolfi323;2731282 Wrote:
>> Maybe / is mounted read-only, caused by the latest systemd update?
>>
>> Your error messages look strikingly similar to this:
>> http://tinyurl.com/oo4oto8
>
> Could be … I’m scratching my head over this. Some further info:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> oldcpu@linux-mtpj:~> df -Th
> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /DEV/SDB5 EXT4 48G 8.1G 39G 18% /
> devtmpfs devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
> tmpfs tmpfs 7.8G 88K 7.8G 1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs tmpfs 7.8G 2.2M 7.8G 1% /run
> tmpfs tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> /dev/sdb1 vfat 256M 22M 235M 9% /boot/efi
> /dev/sda8 ext4 1.7T 1.4T 316G 82% /home
> /dev/sda3 ext4 24G 137M 23G 1% /tmp
> /dev/sda2 ext4 24G 1.7G 22G 8% /var
>
> --------------------
>
> where sdb5 is /
>
> and
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> oldcpu@linux-mtpj:~> cat /etc/fstab
> UUID=a3e11907-0165-4f01-b4c1-810029999214 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
> UUID=920507c2-cbbd-46c9-b8e4-ee957e695a39 /var ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
> UUID=6c8b134f-0f7c-4736-ab94-37f0a0942ad0 /tmp ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
> UUID=2b1e462b-8e51-49e7-a9b3-2a933a7fe88d swap swap defaults 0 0
> UUID=7EC6-8D89 /boot/efi vfat umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
> UUID=f8961aad-eefe-4a9d-9792-f259455334ca /home ext4 defaults 1 2
>
> --------------------
>
> and
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> oldcpu@linux-mtpj:~> mount
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
> devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=8170152k,nr_inodes=2042538,mode=755)
> securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
> tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755)
> tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
> cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
> pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
> cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
> cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
> cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
> cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
> cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
> cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
> cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
> cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
> cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
> /dev/sdb5 on / type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
> efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
> systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=28,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
> mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
> debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
> hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sdb1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
> /dev/sda8 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
> /dev/sda3 on /tmp type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
> /dev/sda2 on /var type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
> tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755)
> fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
> gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
> gvfsd-fuse on /var/run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
>
> --------------------
>
> so /sdb5 is mounted as ro (which I think means read only)
>
That is correct.