On 1/8/07, Tony Schreiner <schreian@xxxxxx> wrote:
I have a system (Centos 4.4 all packages uptodate) where almost every rpm or yum operation fails with a message like e.g.: error: %preun(a2ps-4.13b-41.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 some times the error is on %post() the last few lines of output from rpm -e -vv a2ps are D: ========== --- a2ps-4.13b-41 i386-linux 0x1 D: erase: a2ps-4.13b-41 has 316 files, test = 0 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name create mode=0x42 D: read h# 1071 Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 443e1821 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Triggername create mode=0x42 D: erase: %preun(a2ps-4.13b-41.i386) asynchronous scriptlet start D: erase: %preun(a2ps-4.13b-41.i386) execv(/bin/sh) pid 29443 D: erase: waitpid(29443) rc 29443 status ff00 secs 0.001 error: %preun(a2ps-4.13b-41.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Triggername D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages I can do the install /remove/update with --noscripts, but that doesn't seem like a good idea. rpm --rebuilddb has not helped selinux is enabled but permissive. I've seen a few mentions of this on google, but found no solution. Anybody experienced this?
Check the permissions on /tmp and /var/tmp Check to make sure you have disk space available, at least on /tmp or /var If it were just one package, you could look at the package scripts with rpm -q --scripts to see what exactly it's doing. Since you have more than one package doing it, I suspect permissions errors on /tmp or /var/tmp -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
