rpm doesn't work - scriptlet failed, exit status 255

[vsem]

Hi,

After I removed several old kernels with
rpm -e
rpm stopped working
Each time I try to install or update package it writes
scriptlet failed, exit status 255

I've seen common situation discussion from thread
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...6&page=1&pp=15
But in my case SELinux was already disabled.

How can I fix this problem?

Regards,
Vitaliy

[vsem]

Originally Posted by vsem

Hi,

After I removed several old kernels with
rpm -e
rpm stopped working
Each time I try to install or update package it writes
scriptlet failed, exit status 255

I've seen common situation discussion from thread
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...6&page=1&pp=15
But in my case SELinux was already disabled.

How can I fix this problem?

Regards,
Vitaliy

Additional comments:
like in mentioned thread it happened after installing kernel-module-ntfs

[Jman]

Any package?

Try to update or install something and add the -vv option for lots of debugging information, and post it.

[gavinw6662]

try to use yum and see what check-updates tells you. Does it show anything that might be useful?

[vsem]

here is output for rpm -ivh -vv eog-2.10.0-1.i386.rpm

D: ============== eog-2.10.0-1.i386.rpm
D: Expected size: 633426 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(632986)
D: Actual size: 633426
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0
D: read h# 619 Header sanity check: OK
D: ========== +++ eog-2.10.0-1 i386/linux 0x1
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Depends create mode=0x0
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames rdonly mode=0x0
D: Requires: rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 YES (rpmlib provides)
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname rdonly mode=0x0
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Depends
D: ========== recording tsort relations
D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors, tree, depth, breadth)
D: 0 0 0 0 1 0 +eog-2.10.0-1.i386
D: installing binary packages
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42
D: mounted filesystems:
D: i dev bsize bavail iavail mount point
D: 0 0x00000301 4096 1646039 2249366 /
D: 1 0x00000003 4096 0 -1 /proc
D: 2 0x00000000 4096 0 -1 /sys
D: 3 0x00001601 4096 1519193 -1 /mnt/storage
D: sanity checking 1 elements
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name create mode=0x42
D: running pre-transaction scripts
D: computing 170 file fingerprints
D: computing file dispositions
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames create mode=0x42
D:
D: ========== +++ eog-2.10.0-1 i386-linux 0x1
D: Expected size: 633426 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(632986)
D: Actual size: 633426
D: eog-2.10.0-1: Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 4f2a6fd2
D: install: eog-2.10.0-1 has 170 files, test = 0
D: ========== Directories not explicitly included in package:
D: 0 /etc/gconf/schemas/
D: 1 /usr/bin/
D: 2 /usr/share/
D: 4 /usr/share/doc/
D: 47 /usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/
D: ==========
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 152318 /etc/gconf/schemas/eog.schemas;44395967
D: fini 100755 1 ( 0, 0) 259520 /usr/bin/eog;44395967
D: fini 040755 2 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/share/applications
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 7297 /usr/share/applications/gnome-eog.desktop;44395967
D: fini 040755 2 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/share/doc/eog-2.10.0
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 184 /usr/share/doc/eog-2.10.0/AUTHORS;44395967
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 17992 /usr/share/doc/eog-2.10.0/COPYING;44395967
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 17900 /usr/share/doc/eog-2.10.0/ChangeLog;44395967
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 29407 /usr/share/doc/eog-2.10.0/NEWS;44395967
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 1941 /usr/share/doc/eog-2.10.0/README;44395967
D: fini 040755 3 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/share/eog
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 1860 /usr/share/eog/eog-gtk-ui.xml;44395967
D: fini 040755 2 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/share/eog/glade
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 58334 /usr/share/eog/glade/eog.glade;44395967
D: fini 040755 3 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/share/gnome
D: fini 040755 3 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/share/gnome/help
D: fini 040755 13 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/share/gnome/help/eog
D: fini 040755 3 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/share/gnome/help/eog/C
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 30290 /usr/share/gnome/help/eog/C/eog.xml;44395967
D: fini 040755 2 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/share/gnome/help/eog/C/figures
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 18032 /usr/share/gnome/help/eog/C/figures/eog_save_as_window.png;44395967
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 7356 /usr/share/gnome/help/eog/C/figures/eog_start_window.png;44395967
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 4034 /usr/share/gnome/help/eog/C/legal.xml;44395967
D: fini 040755 3 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/share/gnome/help/eog/de
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 24281 /usr/share/gnome/help/eog/de/eog.xml;44395967
D: fini 040755 2 ( 0, 0) 0 /usr/share/gnome/help/eog/de/figures
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 9341
D: fini 100644 1 ( 0, 0) 12567
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Requireversion create mode=0x42
D: adding 47 entries to Requireversion index.
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Provideversion create mode=0x42
D: adding "2.10.0-1" to Provideversion index.
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Installtid create mode=0x42
D: adding 1 entries to Installtid index.
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Sigmd5 create mode=0x42
D: adding 1 entries to Sigmd5 index.
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Sha1header create mode=0x42
D: adding "8bcaf8b614667035af4af59f36ed51232434be46" to Sha1header index.
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Filemd5s create mode=0x42
D: adding 170 entries to Filemd5s index.
D: install: %post(eog-2.10.0-1.i386) asynchronous scriptlet start
D: install: %post(eog-2.10.0-1.i386) execv(/bin/sh) pid 567
D: install: waitpid(567) rc 567 status ff00 secs 0.003
error: %post(eog-2.10.0-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
D: running post-transaction scripts
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Filemd5s
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Sha1header
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Sigmd5
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Installtid
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Provideversion
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Requireversion
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Dirnames
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Requirename
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Group
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: May free Score board((nil))

[Jman]

%post seems to be failing. In eog it does desktop file updating and gconf database.

So run

update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications

and gconftool-2 and see which one doesn't work.