P. Larry Nelson wrote:
Hi,
This is probably a Troy or Connie question (or a TUV question), but
in the course of doing a manual 'yum update' on one of my servers,
I happened to notice the following error pass by on the screen
(which I normally don't watch - just glanced over to see how it was
going). I've included the line before and after for context.
Cleanup : tcl ##################### [308/345]
error: %preun(lam-libs-7.1.2-8.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
Cleanup : xorg-x11-doc ##################### [309/345]
I don't think this really affects anything on the system - didn't even
know that LAM was installed or even what it does until I did a
'yum info lam'. Not sure why it's installed but seriously doubt
that we make use of it.
Anyway, thought I'd pass it on in case there's something in the
script that needs fixing. Then again, it might have failed due
to something wrong on my system....
An 'rpm -qa | grep lam' yields:
lam-7.1.2-15.el4
lam-libs-7.1.2-8
lam-libs-7.1.2-15.el4
- Larry
Hi Larry,
Just so you know, the scripts for lam-libs have been cleaned up. It was The
Upstream Vendor who did it.
Just for your information, here is how to find out what the scripts are/were
rpm -q --scripts <rpm>
So for your case you would do
rpm -q --scripts lam-libs-7.1.2-8
And you will see the preun script (a pre uninstall script ran before an rpm is
uninstalled.)
---
preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
alternatives --remove mpilibs32 /usr/lib/lam/lam.ld.conf
---
The problem with bad preun and postun scripts is that they are next to
impossible to fix after they are installed. If they are really bad, the user
has to manually remove the rpm's. And such is your case.
To get rid of the problem rpm you need to do
rpm -e --noscripts lam-libs-7.1.2-8
Otherwise, you will always have two copies of lam-libs, which may or may not
affect you.
Troy
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