Bug 853556

Summary:	Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package smstools-3.1.14-3.fc17.x86_64
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jakub Dorňák <jdornak>
Component:	smstools	Assignee:	Patrick C. F. Ernzer <pcfe>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	18	CC:	hhorak, mgrepl, mmahut, pcfe
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2014-02-05 12:07:32 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Jakub Dorňák 2012-08-31 20:35:08 UTC

Description of problem:
I can not install smstools. Yum ends with an error.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
smstools-3.1.14-3.fc17.x86_64


How reproducible:
always in my case


Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install -y smstools

  
Actual results:
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package smstools-3.1.14-3.fc17.x86_64
error: %pre(smstools-3.1.14-3.fc17.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 12


Expected results:
Package installed.


Additional info:
The system (F17) is fully updated.

Comment 1 Jakub Dorňák 2012-08-31 20:58:22 UTC

There is a problem with useradd:
# useradd -r -d /var/lib/smstools -m -g smstools -G dialout smstools
useradd: can not create directory /var/lib/smstools

Workaround:
As workaround user may add the user manually before the installation.
Use command:
# useradd -r -d /var/lib/smstools -g smstools -G dialout smstools

Actually, I dont know why useradd failes to create that home,
but it seems that it is not used.

Comment 3 Miroslav Grepl 2012-10-31 15:29:32 UTC

I added an initial policy to Fedora18.

Comment 4 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2013-01-30 21:24:34 UTC

note: see Comment #2 of Bug 770206 for another work-around
at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770206#c2

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