FC4 rpm not working properly

[Alexander Apprich]

Hi Rodrigo,

Rodrigo López Negrete wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've recently upgraded from FC3 to FC4 via yum.
> Everything worked fine until I decided to install a
> couple of extra packages. NTFS support was one of
> them.
> I downloaded the correct rpm and ran 
> 
> rpm -ivh
> kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-2.1.22-0.rr.7.4.rpm
> 
> And I got the following error...
> 
> error:
> %pre(kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-2.1.22-0.rr.7.4.i686)
> scriptlet failed, exit status 255
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
> kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-2.1.22-0.rr.7.4
> 
> After a couple of posts I got a solution to this by
> using the --noscripts option with rpm. 
> 

--noscript isn't a solution for sure. ;-)

> The problem is that rpm is not working properly when
> installing or uninstalling packages. It doesn't matter
> if I use yum or not. When, for example I tried to
> uninstall amule I got:
> 
> [root at ajenjo ~]# rpm -q amule
> amule-2.0.1-1.2.fc4
> [root at ajenjo ~]# yum remove amule
> Repository extras already added, not adding again
> Setting up Remove Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages.
> Please wait.
> ---> Package amule.i386 0:2.0.1-1.2.fc4 set to be
> erased
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version         
> Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Removing:
>  amule                   i386       2.0.1-1.2.fc4   
> installed         5.6 M
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      0 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       1 Package(s)
> Total download size: 0
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
> error: %preun(amule-2.0.1-1.2.fc4.i386) scriptlet
> failed, exit status 255
> 
> Removed: amule.i386 0:2.0.1-1.2.fc4
> Complete!
> [root at ajenjo ~]# rpm -q amule
> amule-2.0.1-1.2.fc4
> 

The rpm will be removed from the rpm database after the postremove
scripts have finished.

> 
> 
> 
> As you can see, amule did not get removed... Has
> anybody else seen this type of thing? Has anybody else
> gotten this problem? Is this a bug in rpm, should I
> report it?
> 
> In any case, I'd really appreciate some help. I'm
> using  FC4 with kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 on an i686.
> I'm also using:
> rpm-4.4.1-22
> yum-2.3.2-7
> 

try the following...

1. (re)move /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
2. rpm --rebuilddb

Had the same problem after installing FC4, but I had this problem ever
since RH8.0 every now and then.

> THANKS AGAIN!!!
> 
Hth

Alex