[Yum] Yum error in erasing?

Erik Williamson erik at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Wed May 21 15:43:40 UTC 2003


Hi Stephen,

It's looking like an entry for mailman in /etc/init.d has been removed. 
If I try and do the following:

-bash-2.05b$ /sbin/chkconfig --del blarg
error reading information on service blarg: No such file or directory

your options are: forcing the removal (using rpm), copying
/etc/init.d/mailman from another machine (or forcing it to install
again) then attempting to remove it again.

Hope this Helps,
Erik.

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 09:38, Stephen Granade wrote:
> I've run into an odd error in trying to remove the mailman package from my 
> RHG/L 9 box. When I try to "yum erase mailman", after a bit it says
> 
> Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit
> error reading information on service mailman: No such file or directory
> error: %preun(mailman-2.1-8) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> Erased:  mailman.i386
> Transaction(s) Complete
> 
> Now I happen to know it's lying in the next-to-last message, as rpm -qa
> shows mailman-2.1-8 still happily installed. Does anyone know what might
> be happening?
> 
> Stephen
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e r i k   w i l l i a m s o n                     erik at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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