Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 118890
xorg-x11-libs uninstall: "line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'"
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:38 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040225 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: When uninstalling xorg-x11-libs, I get this error message: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.27030: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.27030: line 10: ` fi' error: %postun(xorg-x11-libs-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6) scriptlet failed, exit status 2 I didn't try to reproduce this bug, but there's a completely obvious error in the postun script. Look at this code: %postun libs { if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then # Do not remove _x11libdir from ld.so.conf in postun, as it can cause # serious upgrade problems, especially if the package name changes, or # is replaced with an alternate implementation of X11 #grep -v "^%{_x11libdir}$" /etc/ld.so.conf > /etc/ld.so.conf.new # preserve permissions #cat /etc/ld.so.conf.new > /etc/ld.so.conf #rm -f /etc/ld.so.conf.new fi /sbin/ldconfig } Take out the comments and it becomes: %postun libs { if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then fi /sbin/ldconfig } which is not legal bash syntax. Assuming you really want to keep the code commented out for now, the fix is to comment out the "if" and "fi" as well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-libs-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6
*** Bug 118949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Whoops, I should have spotted that. Thanks for reporting, now fixed in CVS and will be in the next build (.7) * Mon Mar 22 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris@redhat.com> - Fixed -libs subpackage script to not have broken empty if block (#118949)
This is in dist-fc2 internally now. Closing as "RAWHIDE". Thanks again for the report.
*** Bug 119163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Just a note to others who are experiencing this problem: This is a bug in the %postun script of the xorg-x11-libs-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6 package only, which is fixed in newer builds. If you do have the .6 package installed, when you upgrade to a newer package, the %postun from the .6 package gets executed, and you WILL see this error even though the bug IS fixed in the newer packages. This is because it is the _old_ .6 %postun which has the bug in it is what gets executed when the .6 package is removed, thus triggering the bug. Therefore, even though the bug _is_ fixed, people will continue to see the bug, until nobody is using the .6 package anymore. There is no automated way to prevent this error from being seen on package upgrades, and no way to prevent it via fixes in the new packages. It should just be treated as a harmless warning/error for a one time package upgrade. Hope this helps.
*** Bug 119187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 119188 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 119189 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Assigning the bug alias "xorg-scriptlet" to this issue for ease of closing duplicates which are flooding in. Please close any new duplicates as dupes of this bug. TIA