Bug 403265 - ntp install fails - /var/run/ntp already exists
Summary: ntp install fails - /var/run/ntp already exists
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 397422
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Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: x86-64 Linux
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Peter Varkoly
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Reported: 2008-06-24 14:43 UTC by Vilem Marsik
Modified: 2008-07-01 10:00 UTC (History)
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Description Vilem Marsik 2008-06-24 14:43:21 UTC 
Scenario:
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I had a new installation, then needed to add a few more packages (the whole pattern KDE3). NTP was one of its requirements that YaST tried to install. The installation failed with following message:

ntp-4.2.4p4-44.1.x86_64.rpm install failed
rpm output:
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/run/ntp: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory

Diagnostics:
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/var/run/ntp already exists as a directory.
'rpm -q -f /var/run/ntp' says that it is not owned by any package.
Maybe something during the installation created this directory?
Comment 1 Peter Varkoly 2008-07-01 10:00:23 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 397422 ***