Installing or updating java-1.7.0-openjdk to java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.191-2.6.15.4.el6_10 fails in error

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.191-2.6.15.4.el6_10

Issue

  • Installing or updating java-1.7.0-openjdk to java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.191-2.6.15.4.el6_10 fails in error

    # yum -y install java-1.7.0-openjdk
[...]
Downloading Packages:
java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.191-2.6.15.4.el6_10.x86_64.rpm                           |  27 MB     00:00     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Error in PRETRANS scriptlet in rpm package 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.191-2.6.15.4.el6_10.x86_64
error: lua script failed: /usr/libexec/copy_jdk_configs.lua:272: attempt to index global 'file' (a nil value)
  Verifying  : 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.191-2.6.15.4.el6_10.x86_64                                 1/1 

Failed:
  java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 1:1.7.0.191-2.6.15.4.el6_10                                                  

Complete!

Resolution

  • Prior to installing or updating the package, create the /var/lib/rpm-state directory, as shown below

    # mkdir -p /var/lib/rpm-state

Root Cause

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