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
On 1/8/07, Tony Schreiner schreian@bc.edu 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()
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?
Check the permissions on /tmp and /var/tmp
Check to make sure you have disk space available, at least on /tmp or /var
If it were just one package, you could look at the package scripts with rpm -q --scripts to see what exactly it's doing. Since you have more than one package doing it, I suspect permissions errors on /tmp or /var/tmp
On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 1/8/07, Tony Schreiner schreian@bc.edu 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?
Check the permissions on /tmp and /var/tmp
Check to make sure you have disk space available, at least on /tmp or /var
If it were just one package, you could look at the package scripts with rpm -q --scripts to see what exactly it's doing. Since you have more than one package doing it, I suspect permissions errors on /tmp or /var/tmp
/tmp and /var/tmp are both drwxrwxrwt Neither one is more than 30% full, and plenty of inodes left too.
But since you mention /tmp The rpm -Va command for me prints messages like
prelink: /tmp/#prelink#.iF7B1w: Recorded 6 dependencies, now seeing -1
on several different packages. I don't know if this is related or even if normal.
Tony
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
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