[Yum] (no subject)

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 07:31 -0800, Joe Joe wrote:
> I'm running centos 4.4, and when I run any yum command, I get a scriptlet error. From what I read online, this is a package error, but it occurs on every package, and every command.
>  As you can see below, the error prevents the requested removal from happening. Any help is appreciated...
> 
> -------
> [root at localhost /]# yum remove mysql
> Setting up Remove Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package mysql.i386 0:4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1 set to be erased
> --> Running transaction check
> Setting up repositories
> update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00 
>     base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00 
>     addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00 
>     extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00 
>     Reading repository metadata in from local files
> --> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.14(libmysqlclient_14) for package: dovecot
> --> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.14 for package: dovecot
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package dovecot.i386 0:0.99.11-4.EL4 set to be erased
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
> =============================================================================
> Removing:
>  mysql                   i386       4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1  installed         5.2 M
> Removing for dependencies:
>  dovecot                 i386       0.99.11-4.EL4    installed         1.4 M
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      0 Package(s) 
>         Update       0 Package(s) 
>         Remove       2 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(mysql-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
> error: %preun(dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
> 
> Removed: mysql.i386 0:4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1
> Dependency Removed: dovecot.i386 0:0.99.11-4.EL4
> Complete!
> [root at localhost /]#yum list mysql
> 
> Setting up repositories
>  Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Installed Packages
> mysql.i386                               4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1       installed 
>       [root at localhost /]# 
> 
> 

it means the mysql scriptlet is screwed up.

try this:

rpm -e --noscripts mysql

-sv