[SOLVED] Issue with rootcerts update

[mrigs]

Hi All,

New to the forum. So please bear with me if this has been resolved earlier (I tried searching, though).

I have this issue from the past few months. There is always this rootcerts package that shows up with update being available for it. When I install it, seems the package has got installed. But, it still keeps showing under the list of software package update (as in the attached screenshot). If I uncheck the package, and close the Update program, it'd again notify me of this 'new' update. It's not causing any issue as such, but it's difficult to identify from my update notification when a genuine update is available and when rootcerts is falsely notifying of an update.

Any pointers to resolving this?

-best regards,
Mriganka

** EDIT: marked the post as solved **

[djennings]

What happens if you install it from the command line?

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su
<give root password>
urpmi.update -a
urpmi rootcerts

Do you get any error messages?

[mrigs]

Thanks for your response.

In the command line, I do get some errors though -

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[mrigs@neptune ~]$ su
Password:
[root@neptune mrigs]# urpmi.update -a
medium "Core Release (distrib1)" is up-to-date
medium "Core Updates (distrib3)" is up-to-date
medium "Core Backports (distrib7)" is up-to-date
medium "Nonfree Release (distrib11)" is up-to-date
medium "Nonfree Updates (distrib13)" is up-to-date
medium "Nonfree Backports (distrib17)" is up-to-date
medium "Tainted Release (distrib21)" is up-to-date
medium "Tainted Updates (distrib23)" is up-to-date
medium "Tainted Backports (distrib27)" is up-to-date
[root@neptune mrigs]# urpmi rootcerts


    http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mageia/distrib/1/i586/media/core/updates/rootcerts-20111103.00-2.1.mga1.i586.rpm
installing rootcerts-20111103.00-2.1.mga1.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing...                     #########################################################################################################
      1/1: rootcerts             #############################warning: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt created as /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt.rpmnew
###########################################warning: /etc/pki/tls/mozilla/certdata.txt created as /etc/pki/tls/mozilla/certdata.txt.rpmnew
#warning: /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/415660c1.0 created as /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/415660c1.0.rpmnew
warning: /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/415660c1.1 created as /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/415660c1.1.rpmnew
warning: /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/5f267794.0 created as /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/5f267794.0.rpmnew
####warning: /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/c75dd286.1 created as /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/c75dd286.1.rpmnew
warning: /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/c75dd286.2 created as /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/c75dd286.2.rpmnew
#####warning: /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/diginotar-root-ca.pem created as /etc/pki/tls/rootcerts/diginotar-root-ca.pem.rpmnew
#######################
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/ssl/certs: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
[root@neptune mrigs]#

-regards,
Mriganka

[djennings]

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error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/ssl/certs: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory

There is your problem. /etc/ssl/certs is supposed to be a symlink pointing to the directory /etc/pki/tls/certs/
On your computer it is a directory.

If you delete /etc/ssl/certs you should then be able to install the new rootcerts package.
Just to be on the safe side instead of deleting it, rename it.

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mv /etc/ssl/certs /etc/ssl/certs.bak

[mrigs]

And that solves my issue! Many thanks djennings. If only I had approached the forum earlier. Thanks once again.

-regards,
Mriganka