[CentOS] rpm problem after recent yum update

On 5/26/05, Ping-Wu Zhang <pwzhangz at 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
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