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