I am seeing the same problem. I used the same solution suggested by mrtaber solution, and it worked. However, this is the sort of thing that I find really annoying and I feel patching the source tree is more appropriate.
Here is the output trying to install the most recent nightly build of 6.3.0 as root on an updated FC5 box: # rpm -ivh /usr/local/src/SlimServer_6_3_x_v2006-05-25.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] useradd: cannot create directory /usr/local/slimserver error: %pre(slimserver-2006_05_25-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 12 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping slimserver-2006_05_25-1 This also occurred with slimserver-6.2.2-1.noarch.rpm. At first I wondered if it had to do with SELinux, but there was no error message prefixed with 'avc'. Before trying without SELinux on, I noticed that the error message is prefixed with 'useradd', which suggests the problem has to do with creating the slimserver user and this directory simultaneously. I need to find the .spec file (anyone know where to find an SRPM?) to confirm my suspicion). Googling 'useradd: cannot create directory' yielded the following link <http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-February/msg01066.html> which led me to the link <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/UserCreation?action=show&redirect=PackageUserCreation> which I suspect is most pertinent. Hopefully I'll develop a patch to fix this in the .spec file, once I find it. Curiously, it doesn't seem to be in the source tree tarball. If you can set me right on this, email me at adpacifico at yahoo dot com. -al -- Al Pacifico ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Al Pacifico's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5640 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22911 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
