Thunderbird upgrade failure

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Jun 10 14:59:11 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 10:40 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> When I try to upgrade Thunderbird I get the following error message:
> Loaded plugins: downloadonly, priorities, refresh-packagekit
> 113 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> Setting up Upgrade Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package thunderbird.x86_64 0:2.0.0.14-1.fc9 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>   Package                 Arch       Version          Repository 
> Size
> =============================================================================
> Updating:
>   thunderbird             x86_64     2.0.0.14-1.fc9   fedora             23 
> M
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      0 Package(s)
> Update       1 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> 
> Total download size: 23 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/1): thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc9.x86_64.rpm 
> |  23 MB     02:41
> 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.x86_64
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file 
> /usr/lib64/thunderbird-2.0.0.14/dictionaries: cpio: rename
> 
> ######################################
> 
> I have a Core 2 desktop; most everything is installed correctly, 
> except for a few livna-related things.
> 
> Currently, I have the fc8 version of t-bird installed:
> root at brill ~> rpm -q thunderbird
> thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc8.x86_64
> 
> 
> Much thanks in advance for any advice.
----
that issue was in the release notes as I recall...

rpm -e thunderbird
yum install thunderbird

Craig




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