Bug 439235

Summary:	bug-buddy, redhat-menus fail in %postun when desktop-file-utils aren't installed
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Morten K. Poulsen <morten+bugzilla.redhat.com>
Component:	bug-buddy	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Description Morten K. Poulsen 2008-03-27 17:01:52 UTC

Description of problem:
When uninstalling a number of packages, I noticed that bug-buddy and
redhat-menus (and possibly other packages) fail in their %postun scripts when
the update-desktop-database executable is not installed (ie. it is being
uninstalled at the same time as bug-buddy).

The update-desktop-database executable is provided by the desktop-file-utils
package.

This could probably be fixed by checking for update-desktop-database in the
%postun script, before running it.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.8.0-3


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.
# rpm -e bug-buddy redhat-menus gnome-vfs2 gnome-desktop libgnome libbonoboui
libgnomeui desktop-file-utils

  
Actual results:
[root@cn-a-1 mopo]# rpm -e bug-buddy redhat-menus gnome-vfs2 gnome-desktop
libgnome libbonoboui libgnomeui desktop-file-utils
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2709: line 1: update-desktop-database: command not found
error: %postun(redhat-menus-3.7.1-2.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.90861: line 1: update-desktop-database: command not found
error: %postun(bug-buddy-2.8.0-3.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
[root@cn-a-1 mopo]# 


Expected results:
[root@cn-a-1 mopo]# rpm -e bug-buddy redhat-menus gnome-vfs2 gnome-desktop
libgnome libbonoboui libgnomeui desktop-file-utils
[root@cn-a-1 mopo]# 

Additional info:



Best regards,
Morten K. Poulsen

Comment 1 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:02:13 UTC

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