Unable to erase an old package.

[dd_wizard]

Any ideas how to overcome this error?

[gene@Mobile-PC ~]$ yum list installed gpm*
...
Installed Packages
gpm.x86_64                               1.20.6-10.fc14                         @updates-testing
gpm.x86_64                               1.20.6-11.fc14                         @fedora         
gpm-devel.x86_64                         1.20.6-11.fc14                         @fedora         
gpm-libs.x86_64                          1.20.6-11.fc14                         @updates-testing

[gene@Mobile-PC ~]$ sudo rpm --erase --verbose gpm-1.20.6-10.fc14.x86_64
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.t4Fzm1: line 8: syntax error: unexpected end of file
error: %preun(gpm-1.20.6-10.fc14.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 2

Thanks,
dd_wizard

---------- Post added at 11:21 AM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 AM CDT ----------

Here's a little more info. I downgraded gpm* to 1.20.6-10.fc14, then reinstalled the stuck package just to be sure. Then I did an update and got this:

Running Transaction
  Updating       : gpm-libs-1.20.6-11.fc14.x86_64                                           1/6 
  Updating       : gpm-1.20.6-11.fc14.x86_64                                                2/6 
  Updating       : gpm-devel-1.20.6-11.fc14.x86_64                                          3/6 
  Cleanup        : gpm-devel-1.20.6-10.fc14.x86_64                                          4/6 
Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package gpm
  Cleanup        : gpm-libs-1.20.6-10.fc14.x86_64                                           5/6 
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.PzTbRt: line 8: syntax error: unexpected end of file
error: %preun(gpm-1.20.6-10.fc14.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
gpm-1.20.6-10.fc14.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not!

Looking at yum history shows this from the original update to 1.20.6-11:

49 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.hk0inP: line 8: syntax error: unexpected end of file
50 error: %preun(gpm-1.20.6-10.fc14.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
history info

So this package was never cleaned up, even after the original update.

Was that update broken for anybody else? If you want to check, the following commands will be useful:

yum list installed gpm*

yum history list gpm-1.20.6-11*

yum history info nnn
  where nnn is the transaction number from the previous command

Thanks again,
dd_wizard

[PabloTwo]

You could try,

sudo rpm --erase --noscripts --verbose gpm-1.20.6-10.fc14.x86_64

[dd_wizard]

Thanks PabloTwo, that worked. I haven't used the --noscripts option before.

dd_wizard