Bug 479830

Summary:	%post error when installing rhnmd-5.1.2-1 on RHEL-5
Product:	[Community] Spacewalk	Reporter:	Milan Zázrivec <mzazrivec>
Component:	Clients	Assignee:	Milan Zázrivec <mzazrivec>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Priority:	low
Version:	0.4	CC:	msuchy
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Description Milan Zázrivec 2009-01-13 14:09:47 UTC

Description of problem:
* RHEL-5 client system attempting to install rhnmd-5.1.2-1:

# rpm -i rhnmd-5.1.2-1.el5.i386.rpm 
useradd: invalid numeric argument 'apache'
error: %pre(rhnmd-5.1.2-1.el5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 3
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping rhnmd-5.1.2-1.el5
# rpm -qp --scripts rhnmd-5.1.2-1.el5.i386.rpm 
preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
if [ $1 -eq 1 ] ; then
  getent group rhnmd >/dev/null || groupadd -r rhnmd
  getent passwd rhnmd >/dev/null || \
  useradd -r -g rhnmd -G apache -d /var/lib/rhnmd -s /sbin/tcsh -c "NOCpulse user" rhnmd
fi
# getent group apache
# echo $?
2


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhnmd-5.1.2-1

Comment 1 Milan Zázrivec 2009-01-13 14:42:15 UTC

Fix contained in f6095e4c8a125c6930c101054a51ff76f51fb53b
New package version: rhnmd-5.1.3-1

Comment 2 Milan Zázrivec 2009-01-13 15:49:00 UTC

Actually the correct package version is rhnmd-5.1.4-1 and additional
commits are:

b9e2a9e1153769f246b316d10b07b10f2226fc3c
80ff86a3034f3ca1d56645b1fc56ec42d2a19c07

Comment 3 Miroslav Suchý 2009-01-15 13:21:34 UTC

[root@dhcp77-189 ~]# yum install rhnmd
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
rhel-i386-server-5        100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00
spacewalk                 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  80 kB    00:00
################################################## 251/251
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for rhnmd to pack into transaction set.
rhnmd-5.1.4-1.el5.i386.rp 100% |=========================| 4.9 kB    00:00
---> Package rhnmd.i386 0:5.1.4-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 rhnmd                   i386       5.1.4-1.el5      spacewalk         8.2 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 8.2 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): rhnmd-5.1.4-1.el5. 100% |=========================| 8.2 kB    00:00
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: rhnmd                        ######################### [1/1]

Installed: rhnmd.i386 0:5.1.4-1.el5
Complete!

Comment 4 Miroslav Suchý 2009-01-15 13:23:12 UTC

VERIFIED