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? Tony