Synaptic says I have 2 broken packages....

[SiflOlly]

One happens to be the filesystem package and I can't find the other. How do i fix this? I don't like apper. So I installed Synaptic.

[kc1di]

Originally Posted by SiflOlly

One happens to be the filesystem package and I can't find the other. How do i fix this? I don't like apper. So I installed Synaptic.

in synaptic go to edit in the scroll down list there is one call fix broken packages. try that first.

Synaptic is rubbish on rpm distros, use yumex or yum instead and post the actual errors.

[SiflOlly]

How do I get yumex to tell me if I have broken packages? Or is there a command to run for yum to scan all my packages?

[DBelton]

You can run

yum check all

to check for dependency problems and duplicates.

Or you can specify which you wish to check for

yum check dependencies

yum check duplicates

[dcharlespyle]

I usually use Yum and Yumex to do most of my installs and updates since PackageKit is having a lot of crashing problems right now. Out of curiosity I ran Synaptic. I have the same report being given by Synaptic. Mine, however, shows filesystem and setup as the two broken packages.

Originally Posted by DBelton

You can run

yum check all

to check for dependency problems and duplicates.

Or you can specify which you wish to check for

yum check dependencies

yum check duplicates

I tried all of these and get the following:

# yum check all
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
check ['all']

# yum check dependencies
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
check ['dependencies']

# yum check duplicates
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
check ['duplicates']

If I use the name of the package in the command line I get the following:

# yum check all filesystem
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
check ['all', 'filesystem']

# yum check dependencies filesystem
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
check ['dependencies', 'filesystem']

# yum check duplicates filesystem
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
check ['duplicates', 'filesystem']

None of this tells me anything as to what is broken or why.

I have noticed, too, that the filesystem package is being reported as having a "0 bytes" size by Yumex even though the downloaded package itself is 1Mbyte in size. That makes little sense to me.

This is the version of the filesystem package that is installed on my system:

# rpm -qa filesystem
filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64

[richk]

apt-get is broken.

richk

[dcharlespyle]

Originally Posted by richk

apt-get is broken.

richk

That may be, but I am getting other funny errors relating to filesystem. Yesterday, I tried to install Google Earth and today, just a few seconds ago, I tried to install PlayonLinux. Both installations failed with warnings involving filesystem.

Here is the one from a few seconds ago:

Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package playonlinux-yum.noarch 0:3-3 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package               Arch         Version    Repository                  Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 playonlinux-yum       noarch       3-3        /PlayOnLinux_yum-3.3       167  

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total size: 167  
Installed size: 167  
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Check
Running Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
  file / from install of playonlinux-yum-3-3.noarch conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64

I could not even attempt to install this package unless I downloaded it first. Installing it locally, however, gives the above.

These same files worked and installed perfectly in Fedora 17 and I did not get these warnings in that version. This problem is new to Fedora 18-Alpha for me.

[DBelton]

It's not just you, either.

I tried it on my F18 install and get the same error.

Third party repos/packages don't work a lot of times with Fedora pre-release versions, though. I would ask the people over at play on linux if they have a fix for it.

[dcharlespyle]

They don't. I ended up having to force the installation using rpm. Same for Google Earth. No problems after doing that and both applications work as intended--so far as I could tell after running them.

[skytux]

Originally Posted by dcharlespyle

I have noticed, too, that the filesystem package is being reported as having a "0 bytes" size by Yumex even though the downloaded package itself is 1Mbyte in size. That makes little sense to me.

Why this makes little sense to you? Take a look at the output of rpm -qi filesystem:

The filesystem package is one of the basic packages that is installed
on a Linux system. Filesystem contains the basic directory layout
for a Linux operating system, including the correct permissions for
the directories.

HTH,
Germán.

[dcharlespyle]

I have attached a screenshot as to why a package that is 1 Mbyte should show up as zero bytes makes little sense to me. Even inside the first directory level there are files that have sizes greater than zero. This package is supposed to contain at least 51 bytes of information but Yum shows it as zero.

[DBelton]

it's probably just a rounding bug in yum.

From what I can tell, yum rounds to the nearest half MB (some places it displays the closest MB). At least they did fix the bug where it showed some package sizes as a negative

[rave199]

i was having the same exact problem with fedora 18. the synaptic manager kept saying i have two broken packages. filesystem and setup as the two broken packages. i tried to use the fix broken packages in the package manager but it wanted to delete all the dependencies as well. if anyone knows how to fix this problem please let me know. i really do wish the people who create the distro would check for these kind of bugs and errors before releasing it to the general public.

[skytux]

Originally Posted by rave199

i was having the same exact problem with fedora 18. the synaptic manager kept saying i have two broken packages. filesystem and setup as the two broken packages. i tried to use the fix broken packages in the package manager but it wanted to delete all the dependencies as well. if anyone knows how to fix this problem please let me know. i really do wish the people who create the distro would check for these kind of bugs and errors before releasing it to the general public.

This is not Mac O$, this is a community working together. If you come across a bug then you should report it. That is the way.