Fedora update fails for "filesystem" package

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I have Fedora 19 currently installed and the filesystem package has shown up in the updates. I find it a little peculiar on how to actually update the filesystem package.

Running transaction Updating : filesystem-3.2-13.fc19.x86_64 1/2

Error unpacking rpm package filesystem-3.2-13.fc19.x86_64 error:

unpacking of archive failed on file /lib: cpio: rename

filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not!

Verifying : filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64 1/2 Verifying :

filesystem-3.2-13.fc19.x86_64 2/2 Failed: filesystem.x86_64 0:3.1-2.fc18 filesystem.x86_64 0:3.2-13.fc19 Complete!

you could try to download the package manually. Also you could try the following # yum clean all and # yum update — ALex_hha, Jul 28 '13 at 08:23
$ ls -ld /lib drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 4096 Jul 27 18:41 /lib — Sean McCully, Jul 28 '13 at 08:37
You could run `strace -f yum update -y filesystem >log 2>&1`, and see what the failing rename syscall is. I.e.: what the target name is, and what the error code is. (If it's EPERM, remember it could be some selinux damage - check the audit log). — sourcejedi, Jul 28 '13 at 09:19
How did you get your system into this state? Did you upgrade it from something? — Michael Hampton, Jul 28 '13 at 09:45
ran strace, was an EPERM problem renaming the /lib symlink back to /lib. Disabled selinux, still same issue. Rerunning fedup-cli to reinstall F19 — Sean McCully, Jul 28 '13 at 09:54
Did not work, going to now re-install entire system from media — Sean McCully, Jul 28 '13 at 10:04
This trouble has relation to immutable attribute but I still do not know how to deal with it — vitaly.v.ch, Apr 16 '15 at 15:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 28 '13 at 13:11

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I reformatted the root partition and re-installed the base system. Was able to walk through the update from F18* -> F19 (F = Fedora).

*Issues with NIC drivers were resolved in upgrade to F19.

answered Jul 28 '13 at 13:11

Sean McCully

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