[CentOS] Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 17:29:17 UTC 2007


On 6/18/07, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 21:00 -0400, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> >       Anyone run into this?  I was planning to upgrade the box to CentOS
> > 5 next month but I may do it sooner if it will fix this.
>
> I just did an upgrade on a CentOS 4 server, and dovecot won't even
> install for me.  I keep getting this:
>
> [ksandhu at webster ~]$ sudo rpm -Uvh dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
> error: %pre(dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
> dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4

This means that the pre-install script failed on the rpm. you can see
what this is by running rpm -q --scripts dovecot

> I also can't shutdown anymore.  When I do a "reboot" or "shutdown -r
> now", I get this:

This is unrelated (to the original poster's issue) and is possible
thread hi-jacking.

>
> [root at webster ~]# shutdown -h now
>
> Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Mon Jun 18 00:58:20 2007):
>
> The system is going down for system halt NOW!
> init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
>
>
> What the hell is going on?

Look in your logs for details. Do you have selinux enabled? If so,
it's possible that some of your files have invalid selinux contexts.

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