Now however I am having remarkably similar problems with two official Centos-4.4 updates, xorg-x11-xfs and openssh-server. Can anybody give me some clues as to what is going on and how I might correct this. I am sure that xen is involved in this somehow because I run four other servers with Centos-4.4 and none of them have displayed this problem. This is what I am seeing when trying to update via yum:
error: %pre(openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1 Updated: openssh-server.i386 0:3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1 Complete!
This basically means that the package files were put in place correctly but the scripts which run before the install failed. rpm -q openssh-server --scripts shows the following for the preinstall script: preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): /usr/sbin/useradd -c "Privilege-separated SSH" -u 74 \ -s /sbin/nologin -r -d /var/empty/sshd sshd 2> /dev/null || : The xorg-x11-xfs package preinstall is a bit more to choke down, so I'll let you do that on your own if you wish. That both of them fail is an indication that something is indeed horked. Are these instances running as a guest, or is this the host box? -- 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