From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030708 Description of problem: Fresh install of RH 9, download all updates, move kernel* to another directory, then run rpm -Fvh *.rpm in the directory conataining the updates results in: [root@100-lan updates]# rpm -Fvh *.rpm warning: balsa-2.0.6-2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:glibc-common ########################################### [ 4%] 2:glibc ########################################### [ 7%] error: %post(glibc-2.3.2-27.9) scriptlet failed, exit status 121 3:bash ########################################### [ 11%] 4:krb5-libs ########################################### [ 15%] 5:perl ########################################### [ 19%] 6:openssl ########################################### [ 22%] 7:perl-CGI ########################################### [ 26%] 8:mysql ########################################### [ 30%] 9:openssh ########################################### [ 33%] 10:gnupg ########################################### [ 37%] 11:krb5-devel ########################################### [ 41%] 12:rhpl ########################################### [ 44%] 13:perl-CPAN ########################################### [ 48%] 14:glibc-devel ########################################### [ 52%] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.80699: line 2: 1424 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/useradd -M -o -r -d /var/lib/mysql -s /bin/bash -c "MySQL Server" -u 27 mysql >/dev/null 2>&1 15:mysql-server ########################################### [ 56%] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.67961: line 2: 1429 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/useradd -c "RPC Service User" -r -s /sbin/nologin -u 29 -d /var/lib/nfs rpcuser 2>/dev/null 16:nfs-utils ########################################### [ 59%] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46358: line 2: 1437 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/useradd -M -o -r -d / -s /sbin/nologin -c "NSCD Daemon" -u 28 nscd >/dev/null 2>&1 17:nscd ########################################### [ 63%] 18:openssh-clients ########################################### [ 67%] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88963: line 2: 1441 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/useradd -c "Privilege-separated SSH" -u 74 -s /sbin/nologin -r -d /var/empty/sshd sshd 2>/dev/null 19:openssh-server ########################################### [ 70%] 20:openssl-devel ########################################### [ 74%] 21:pam_smb ########################################### [ 78%] 22:perl-DB_File ########################################### [ 81%] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.24600: line 1: 1445 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/useradd -u 47 -d /var/spool/mqueue -r -s /sbin/nologin mailnull >/dev/null 2>&1 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.24600: line 2: 1446 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/useradd -u 51 -d /var/spool/mqueue -r -s /sbin/nologin smmsp >/dev/null 2>&1 23:sendmail ########################################### [ 85%] error: %post(sendmail-8.12.8-9.90) scriptlet failed, exit status 139 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.33324: line 1: 1465 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 77 pcap 2>/dev/null /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.33324: line 3: 1466 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/useradd -u 77 -g 77 -s /sbin/nologin -M -r -d /var/arpwatch pcap 2>/dev/null 24:tcpdump ########################################### [ 89%] 25:unzip ########################################### [ 93%] 26:up2date ########################################### [ 96%] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.87436: line 9: 1471 Segmentation fault perl -p -i -e "s/UNSPECIFIED/$UUID/g" /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-uuid error: %post(up2date-3.1.23.2-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 139 27:xinetd ########################################### [100%] [root@100-lan updates]# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RH 9 2. Install all updates except kernel* 3. Actual Results: Afterwards, I did rpm -ivh <failed rpm> --force, the the ones that failed installed properly. Expected Results: It should of updated the system without errors. Additional info:
What updates? I bet you have a machine where RHL9 installs the i686 glibc and you force the i386 version on top of it. This mustn't happen and would be entirely your fault. So, which files were involved?
Your right.. I goofed.. I just can't understand how if there's arch specific updates, the updates not for the arch will install :( I didn't force anything.. rpm -Fvh is all it took.. Thanks for the help..
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88456 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.