| Summary: | glibc-common warning: (null) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mads Kiilerich <mads> |
| Component: | glibc | Assignee: | Andreas Schwab <schwab> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | atodorov, fweimer, jakub, schwab |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | glibc-2.14.90-12.999 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-10-19 04:34:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
Same issue when installing in KVM guest from the Fedora 16 Beta DVD: install.log: 05:23:03 Installing ncurses-base-5.9-2.20110716.fc16.x86_64 05:23:04 Installing nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.10-4.fc16.x86_64 05:23:04 Installing glibc-common-2.14.90-8.x86_64 warning: (null) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 05:23:10 Installing glibc-2.14.90-8.x86_64 05:23:21 Installing ncurses-libs-5.9-2.20110716.fc16.x86_64 05:23:21 Installing bash-4.2.10-4.fc16.x86_64 glibc-2.14.90-11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.14.90-11 Package glibc-2.14.90-11: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing glibc-2.14.90-11' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-14175 then log in and leave karma (feedback). glibc-2.14.90-12.999 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-14504 glibc-2.14.90-12.999 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
When glibc-common is installed in chroot (when building a livecd) it emits a warning, as shown by this example: # rm -rf root # rpm --root `pwd`/root -ihv \ glibc-common-2.14.90-4.1.x86_64.rpm \ glibc-2.14.90-4.1.x86_64.rpm \ bash-4.2.10-4.fc16.x86_64.rpm \ tzdata-2011h-1.fc16.noarch.rpm \ libgcc-4.6.1-7.fc16.x86_64.rpm \ basesystem-10.0-5.fc16.noarch.rpm \ setup-2.8.35-1.fc16.noarch.rpm \ filesystem-2.4.44-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm \ libselinux-2.0.102-6.fc16.x86_64.rpm \ nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.10-4.fc16.x86_64.rpm \ libsepol-2.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm \ ncurses-libs-5.9-2.20110716.fc16.x86_64.rpm \ ncurses-base-5.9-2.20110716.fc16.x86_64.rpm warning: glibc-common-2.14.90-4.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID a82ba4b7: NOKEY Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:setup ########################################### [ 8%] 2:libgcc ########################################### [ 15%] 3:filesystem ########################################### [ 23%] 4:basesystem ########################################### [ 31%] 5:ncurses-base ########################################### [ 38%] 6:tzdata ########################################### [ 46%] 7:nss-softokn-freebl ########################################### [ 54%] 8:glibc-common ########################################### [ 62%] warning: (null) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 9:glibc ########################################### [ 69%] 10:ncurses-libs ########################################### [ 77%] 11:bash ########################################### [ 85%] 12:libsepol ########################################### [ 92%] 13:libselinux ########################################### [100%] Why do glibc-common installation cause a warning, and what is it that is failing? glibc.spec has: %triggerin common -p <lua> -- glibc if posix.stat("%{_prefix}/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl", "size") > 0 then pid = posix.fork() if pid == 0 then posix.exec("%{_prefix}/sbin/build-locale-archive") elseif pid > 0 then posix.wait(pid) end end %post common -p <lua> if posix.access("/etc/ld.so.cache") then if posix.stat("%{_prefix}/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl", "size") > 0 then pid = posix.fork() if pid == 0 then posix.exec("%{_prefix}/sbin/build-locale-archive") elseif pid > 0 then posix.wait(pid) end end end %triggerin common -p /usr/sbin/tzdata-update -- tzdata strace shows that %post correctly is skipped after 525 access("/etc/ld.so.cache", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) but tzdata has already been installed and is thus run before glibc is available and we get: 526 execve("/usr/sbin/tzdata-update", ["/usr/sbin/tzdata-update", "/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.8o2qZw", "1", "1"], [/* 28 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 526 exit_group(127) = ? ... 18 lines ... 525 write(2, "warning: ", 9) = 9 525 write(2, "(null) scriptlet failed, exit st"..., 41) = 41 AFAICS rpm does the right thing so I guess the tzdata scriptlet should be fixed somehow. Thinking out loud: it seems like the simplest way to break the strong circular glibc/glibc-common dependency would be to merge the packages ... but I guess there is a reason they are separate ... Forcing or tricking rpm to install glibc first would perhaps also solve the problem - perhaps with some tricky explicit Requires(post). glibc-common-2.14.90-4.1.x86_64 rpm-4.9.1-3.fc16.x86_64