Hi,
Seeing there was an updated package for gcc on my FC6 machine I happily
let the thing update itself. However libgcj breaks while updating:
Updating : libgcj #########################
[1/2]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/gcj-4.1.2: cpio:
rename
Updated: libgcj.i386 0:4.1.2-13.fc6
Complete!
Notice the happy "Complete!"...
Your resulting gcj environment is now complete borked.
gcj -C Hello.java
Hello.java:0: error: Can't find default package ‘java.lang’. Check the
CLASSPATH environment variable and the access to the archives
1 error
And any attempt to install or update (even after a remove) of libgcj
will fail in the same way. For some reason there are
multiple /usr/lib/gcj-4.1.2;468a1711 dirs (with the part after ; being
some random hex-string) which seem to prevent yum updating or installing
anything.
In the end the only way to get a working install back was to yum remove
libgcj (yes, this takes all the dependencies with it), and then removing
the left over directories
rm -rf /usr/lib/gcj-4.1.2* /usr/lib64/gcj-4.1.2*
And then installing everything again with yum install.
There probably is an easier (and safer) way, and I don't really
understand why this happened in the first place. Comments and ideas
appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
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