On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > On 1/8/07, Tony Schreiner <schreian at 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