Comment 18 for bug 222803

Just hit this issue as a result of a repo update yesterday / day before, (5/28, 5/29). The OO update notification was triggering a Partial Upgrade, but if you tried to perform, it would just err out. Packages other than OO could be updated around the issue without problem.

Tried the openoffice.org-java-common install from Aleksander's forum point before having to manually delete the file, and worked for me. My original install on this laptop, I believe, was Hardy beta 5, so whatever the issue is wrt the .xml file not updating, apparently it existed from as recently as that, and there's a decent chance that that recent repo update will be causing problems for those of us who upgraded from betas, rather than doing a fresh install of 8.04 final.