After a yum update (yesterday), I am now unable to install any rpm package. An example of the error message is duplicated below: %pre(VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124 Could anyone help? Thanks in advance.
what version of CentOS? -Marco Garza ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ping-Wu Zhang" <pwzhangz at gmail.com> To: <centos at centos.org> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:43 PM Subject: [CentOS] rpm problem after recent yum update After a yum update (yesterday), I am now unable to install any rpm package. An example of the error message is duplicated below: %pre(VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124 Could anyone help? Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.17 - Release Date: 5/25/2005
On 5/26/05, Ping-Wu Zhang <pwzhangz at gmail.com> wrote:> After a yum update (yesterday), I am now unable to install any rpm > package. An example of the error message is duplicated below: > > %pre(VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 > error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping > VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124 > > Could anyone help? Thanks in advance.The output of this (fix the rpm package name if I got it wrong) should be the script that fails: rpm -q --queryformat "%{PREIN}\n" -p VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124.i386.rpm HTH, Zoran -- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. --Marcus Aurelius