Bugzilla – Bug 1197445
Software updates fail with error message, all previous updates installed over and over again, now can't update
Last modified: 2022-03-23 19:18:10 UTC
I think there's never been a single time that I have installed updates from the Software Updates widget without some issue. Something always goes wrong. This time I got this error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command exited with status 1. History: - error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/nvme;623b57c0: cpio: File from package already exists as a directory in system error: nvme-cli-bash-completion-2.0~7-1.1.x86_64: install failed error: nvme-cli-bash-completion-2.0~2-1.1.x86_64: erase skipped I had about 2k updates available, I installed them, and got that error near the end. After that, there were 1196 new updates. Installed again, got the same error. Now I still have 1196 updates, so apparently, because of that one error, I cannot install any of those 1196 updates. I've said this countless times in other bug reports: The error doesn't tell me what I could or should do to fix it. I understand that sort of error message is useful for the developers to fix the issue (although they don't seem to do that a lot), but to the user, you need to give an understandable error in plain English that tells me what action I can take about it.
Starting from something very basic: I did "sudo zypper dup" from a terminal. It gave me the exact same error, and it gave me a choice: ignore/retry/ abort (or something). Not that that changes a lot (in order to retry I needed to try and guess what to do to remove the problem, which I did), but the fact that the Software Updates widget doesn't even give me that very basic, trivial, bare minimum of a choice that is "retry / ignore / abort" is absolutely pathetic. Note: that is not the whole issue, there's a lot to unpack here, but maybe start from there?
see bug 1197365 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1197365 ***
I am sorry you feel... challenged. Some hints: * See below for what "critical" means: "Crash, data loss or corruption, severe memory leak, etc." This bug is not critical. Don't escalate because it is important to you. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/page.cgi?id=importance_matrix.html * Use bugzilla bug search. It would have shown bug 1197365 * If you handwave to previous bugs, mention them. You mean bug 1195810. (In reply to teo teo from comment #0) > I think there's never been a single time that I have installed updates from > the Software Updates widget without some issue. Really? > Something always goes wrong. Always?