Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: pycparser error or openSUSE error Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:23:59 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Lines: 35 Message-ID: <87fv2zvs34.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> References: <87613zf2lu.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="528adfd6ad074c92fdc6a7f8fb9e23d8"; logging-data="16001"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18FIx65/H5kV/fOCxgAGe2Un0LxsKajQVA=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3P8nIZ+m7tPfcAivEkPa9tS/wFY= sha1:uWU98mjrdoxa52Z9XEtweJ8eGJk= X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:95781 On Saturday 29 Aug 2015 01:22 CEST, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:51:57 +0200, Cecil Westerhof > writes: >> When doing a ‘zypper update’ on openSUSE I get: Installing: >> python-pycparser-2.12-8.2 >> ..........................................................................................................................................................[error] >> Installation of python-pycparser-2.12-8.2 failed: Error: Subprocess >> failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on >> file >> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycparser-2.12-py2.7.egg-info: >> cpio: rename failed - Is a directory error: >> python-pycparser-2.12-8.2.noarch: install failed >> >> Is this a Python error or an openSUSE error? >> >> -- >> Cecil Westerhof >> Senior Software Engineer >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof > > SuSe is complaining. > > You almost certainly have this problem. > > https://joshua.hoblitt.com/rtfm/2013/05/dealing_with_rpm_cpio_rename_package_installupdate_errors/ Something to delve into. But the problem went away again. It took a few days, but I suppose they solved it at openSUSE. But next time I can solve it maybe a bit sooner by myself. :-D -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof