CentOS 4. Yum updated less than one week ago.

On 5/26/05, Marco Garza testuser@ccskavenger.info wrote:

what version of CentOS?

-Marco Garza

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ping-Wu Zhang" pwzhangz@gmail.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:43 PM Subject: [CentOS] rpm problem after recent yum update

After a yum update (yesterday), I am now unable to install any rpm package. An example of the error message is duplicated below:

%pre(VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124

Could anyone help? Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Thanks for the help. However, it appears that my rpm is broken. How to fix rpm when rpm itself is broken? Thanks again.

On 5/27/05, Zoran Milojevic kizontije@gmail.com wrote:

On 5/26/05, Ping-Wu Zhang pwzhangz@gmail.com wrote:

...

After a yum update (yesterday), I am now unable to install any rpm package. An example of the error message is duplicated below:

%pre(VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124

Could anyone help? Thanks in advance.

The output of this (fix the rpm package name if I got it wrong) should be the script that fails:

rpm -q --queryformat "%{PREIN}\n" -p VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124.i386.rpm

HTH, Zoran -- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. --Marcus Aurelius _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Thanks for the kind help. It appears that if I add the following option, --noscripts , when running rpm, then the problem went away. However, I don't know how to work this option into yum. Specifically, I am having problem updating/installing firefox. The error message I received is:

error: %post(firefox-1.0.4-1.4.1.centos4.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255

I am dumping the entire output as follows:

[pwzhangz@localhost dl]$ sudo yum install firefox Setting up Install Process Setting up Repos kbs-CentOS-Extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 kbs-CentOS-Misc 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 1002/1002 kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 60/60 update : ################################################## 142/142 base : ################################################## 1404/1404 addons : ################################################## 2/2 extras : ################################################## 30/30 Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package firefox.i386 0:1.0.4-1.4.1.centos4 set to be updated --> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved Transaction Listing: Install: firefox.i386 0:1.0.4-1.4.1.centos4 - update Total download size: 16 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: firefox 100 % done 1/1 error: %post(firefox-1.0.4-1.4.1.centos4.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 Installed: firefox.i386 0:1.0.4-1.4.1.centos4 Complete!

(Thereafter, I was not able to start firefox.)

Thanks for the help again, this forum is unbelievable.

• specifically, search here:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.redhat.rpm

Zoran