PackageKit showing the same update continuously

John Lagrue jlagrue at gmail.com
Sat May 17 09:47:07 UTC 2008


2008/5/17 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:

> John Lagrue wrote:
>
>> PackageKit seems to have got stuck for me......
>>
>> It is permanently telling me there's an update to Thunderbird:
>> thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc9
>>
>> So I tell it to update..which it does....
>>
>> ..and then comes tells me again that the same update is still available.
>>
>> I'd like it if PackageKit were a tad more informative!
>>
>
> Does yum update on the command line work?
>
>
No. I had just tested that at the moment your email arrived :)

yum falis at install time but still thinks that it succeeded!

Here's what happens.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Downloading Packages:
(1/1): thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc9.i386.rpm               |  23 MB
01:03
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Updating  : thunderbird                  ######################### [1/2]
Error unpacking rpm package thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc9.i386
error: unpacking of archive failed on file
/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.14/dictionaries: cpio: rename

Updated: thunderbird.i386 0:2.0.0.14-1.fc9
Complete!
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