On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Chuck Anderson <cra@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I ran into a comedy of errors today after I did a new F17 installation > yesterday. Here are a couple: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848148 > Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package wireshark-1.6.9-1.fc17.x86_64 > > (and why does yum still let the transaction succeed, creating problems > in the RPMDB, broken dependencies?) > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845671 > "Directory '/var/run/screen' must have mode 777." when opening screen > > (and why does systemd-tmpfiles completely fail to start when there is > a missing group--it should fail gracefully, allowing the other > tmpfiles stuff to run and the service as a whole to run) > > Both of these are traceable to missing entries in /etc/group. In the > former cae, there is an explicit "Error in PREIN" script during > instalation. In the latter case, there is only a warning and > installation proceeds: > > Running Transaction > Installing : screen-4.1.0-0.9.20120314git3c2946.fc17.x86_64 1/1 > warning: group screen does not exist - using root > warning: group screen does not exist - using root > > So what is going on with %pre not running groupadd properly? Are there > any known issues in this area? Would like to add a link to the bug I filed recently [1]. As I note there, this is what I get: "Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package rabbitmq-server-2.6.1-2.fc17.noarch error: %pre(rabbitmq-server-2.6.1-2.fc17.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 6" And also that "Group added using: #groupadd -r rabbitmq and yum install succeeds." [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844977 Cheers, Amit -- http://echorand.me -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test