Re: [owl-users] Error in installworld

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 01:52:10AM +0400, Malykh Oleg wrote:
> What version are you upgrading from?
> OM> I don't remember. I suppose it is one of second relase of Owl
> What version are you upgrading to?
> OM> I've upgraded to current.

Well, upgrades over an Owl release are more likely not to work than
upgrades via each release.  That is, proper upgrade path for a pre-3.0
version of Owl is to upgrade to 3.0, then upgrade to post-3.0.  That
said, I am not sure that this explains the error you've received.  I am
puzzled by this specific error.

>    7:tzdata                 ########################################### [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory

Is /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab in fact a directory?  I guess the
errno is probably from access to another path (maybe the rename target).

You may try renaming the entire /usr/share/zoneinfo directory, e.g.:

mv /usr/share/zoneinfo{,.save}

Then run installworld again, which should create this directory anew.

Does this help?

Alexander