[CentOS] yum erase fails

Fri Sep 12 14:22:04 UTC 2008
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Pintér Tibor wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> I am trying to erase an rpm with yum erase.  It fails:
>>
>> service hipfw does not support chkconfig
>>
>> Removed: hipl-firewall.i386 0:1.0.4.1
>> Complete!
>>
>> And it is not removed....
>>
>> If I try with rpm -e, I get the same error message.
>>
>>
>> So how do I remove this rpm?
>
> --noscripts ?


and, since it apparently doesn't' support chkconfig, you likely will 
need to manually clean out /etc/rc.d/rc?.d/???hipfw