On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Tony Schreiner 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()
.... 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? Tony
I'm going to follow up to my own post.
When I had this problem, I had selinux enabled but permissive. I finally had a chance to restart the system, and restarted it with selinux disabled. rpm works properly now.
When I get another chance to reboot, I will try turning it back on and relabeling the file system; but it might be a while before I can do that. Tony