Bug 151958

Summary: script error during update
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Mike McLean <mikem>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Description Mike McLean 2005-03-23 20:36:36 UTC 
* thunderbird-1.0.2-1.4.1
* firefox-1.0.2-1.4.1

I just pulled down from fresh updates to my RHEL4 box.  These updates included
thunderbird and firefox.  At the end of the up2date, I got the following error:
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70614: line 5:
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0/firefox-rebuild-databases.pl: No such file or directory

I'm honestly not sure which script or trigger is at fault.  Looking through the
installed packages afterward, I cannot for an reference to
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0/.  So maybe this was a postun in an older package?

Here is a fuller console log.

Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
ImageMagick-6.0.7.1-10.i386 ########################## Done.                   
devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.3.i386.rp ########################## Done.                   
ethereal-0.10.10-1.EL4.1.i3 ########################## Done.                   
firefox-1.0.2-1.4.1.i386.rp ########################## Done.                   
ipsec-tools-0.3.3-6.i386.rp ########################## Done.                   
kdelibs-3.3.1-3.6.i386.rpm: ########################## Done.                   
kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-3.6.i38 ########################## Done.                   
libexif-0.5.12-5.1.i386.rpm ########################## Done.                   
mozilla-1.7.6-1.4.1.i386.rp ########################## Done.                   
mozilla-nspr-1.7.6-1.4.1.i3 ########################## Done.                   
mozilla-nss-1.7.6-1.4.1.i38 ########################## Done.                   
thunderbird-1.0.2-1.4.1.i38 ########################## Done.                   
Preparing              ########################################### [100%]

Installing...
   1:mozilla-nspr           ########################################### [100%]
   2:mozilla-nss            ########################################### [100%]
   3:mozilla                ########################################### [100%]
   4:kdelibs                ########################################### [100%]
   5:devhelp                ########################################### [100%]
   6:ethereal               ########################################### [100%]
   7:ImageMagick            ########################################### [100%]
   8:firefox                ########################################### [100%]
   9:ipsec-tools            ########################################### [100%]
  10:kdelibs-devel          ########################################### [100%]
  11:libexif                ########################################### [100%]
  12:thunderbird            ########################################### [100%]
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70614: line 5:
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0/firefox-rebuild-databases.pl: No such file or directory
Comment 1 Mike McLean 2005-03-23 21:25:03 UTC 
ugh. I think I found my problem -- bogus rpmdb entry

Shortly after I installed RHEL4, I upgraded to a non-released firefox package
(1.0-13.EL4) to fix the text selection bug.  Apparently when the previous
firefox update (1.0.1-1.4.3) was applied, the -13.EL4 package did not remove
cleanly.  Its rpmdb entry was still present (I found this out by looking at
/var/log/rpmpkgs).

So when I applied this most recent update (1.0.2-1.4.1), the -13.EL4 firefox
%postun kicked in and created the error.

Closing as NOTABUG