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. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell