Description of problem: Clean everything install of FC2-T2. When updated packages appeared in development, I attempted to update. For the first update, I only selected the kernel packages (yes, selected from the "flagged to be skipped"). All packages were downloaded except the kernel itself the the progress bar displayed that the download was NOT complete although the message was displayed to proceed to install. This may be a dup of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118566 I cannot tell from the text of that report.
Bad news, bad news. This problem may be worse than it originally appears. I attempted to update the four amanda-* packages plus anaconda, anconda-runtime, and a2ps. All packages appeared to be downloaded and then the install ... the install progress bar did not complete although the "finish" message appeared. When I went to the next frame, it indicated that all packages were installed and, by checking with rpm, anaconda, anaconda-runtime, a2ps, amanda-client, amanda-devel, and amanda-server were. However, the amanda packages was not missing! I checked the install.log and it had been installed.
Well, looks like this is another selinux permissions thing. I logged in as root and tried to manually install amanda and got: rpm -Uvh /var/spool/up2date/amanda-2.4.4p2-3.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] error: setexeccon(root:staff_r:rpm_script_t) fails from context "root:staff_r:staff_t": Invalid argument error: %pre(amanda-2.4.4p2-3) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping amanda-2.4.4p2-3 I then switched to permissive mode using the setenforcing command and amanda installed fine. I also tried manually installing the kernel under enforcing mode and got: rpm -ivh /var/spool/up2date/kernel-2.6.4-1.298.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] error: setexeccon(root:staff_r:rpm_script_t) fails from context "root:staff_r:staff_t": Invalid argument error: %pre(kernel-2.6.4-1.298) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping kernel-2.6.4-1.298
Currently we don't support doing this as staff_r. The idea is that you use the sysadm_r role to upgrade/install packages.
A part of the problem is that /usr/sbin/up2date is not an rpm_exec_t - see bug 119208.
This is really getting to be a BIG problem. This time it was gdm. I tried to update to gdm 2.6.0 and up2dte said it did (but the progress bar was short so I checked). Oops, gdm is NOT installed. OK, install ... lots of error messages. Do "setenforce 0" and then manually install oldpackage .. fine ... install the new package ... fine. My big problem is that there is NOT record that rpm had a problem!
What does "ls -Z /usr/sbin/up2date" says? If it's not an rpm_exec_t, then you are using an old policy (or did not relabel files after installign a new one) and you are seeing bug 119208.
Fixing up2date is a multi step process. One update to latest policy. restorecon /usr/sbin/up2date update to latest usermode Add ROLE=sysadm_r TYPE=rpm_t to /etc/security/console.apps/up2date.
I wish this was just SELinux and security policy related but I do not believe that is the complete problem. Yes, you can fix the stuff mentioned above and that will definitely help. However, does that still leave the possibility that rpm could fail actually doing an install but up2date says everything is OK? I would have thought that the policy failures would have been caught.
>I wish this was just SELinux and security policy related but I do not >believe that is the complete problem. Yes, you can fix the stuff >mentioned above and that will definitely help. However, does that >still leave the possibility that rpm could fail actually doing an >install but up2date says everything is OK? Yup, that can happen. I wish it couldn't, but it can. Depending on the failure mode, rpm will not report any errors after failing to install a package. rpm-python is changing at the moment, so hopefully this can be fixed.
Well I seem to have the reverse midas touch because it happens to me a lot. I have two systems with FC2-T2 in test one ix86 and one x86_64. I can see the problem with kernel installs because it is also there for a manual rpm -ivh unless i do "setenforce 0". However, some packages will install OK on one system but not on the other. The delete without install problem leaves the files installed but removes everything from rpmdb -- had that happen with the recent gdm and xorg-x11 packages and then it did not install xorg-x11-xdm ... that all happened on one system (ix86) ... on the x86_64, it skipped installing xorg-x11-xfs but that is all.
Same problem here as original and comments 1,2 above, with same output. Not sure why root isn't sysadm or how to make it so, but turning off SELinux resulted in a proper install as follows: [root@endor root]# rpm -ivh /root/Desktop/kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.308.i686.rpm /root/Desktop/kernel-2.6.5-1.308.i686.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] error: setexeccon(root:staff_r:rpm_script_t) fails from context "root:staff_r:staff_t": Invalid argument error: %pre(kernel-2.6.5-1.308) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping kernel-2.6.5-1.308 error: setexeccon(root:staff_r:rpm_script_t) fails from context "root:staff_r:staff_t": Invalid argument error: %pre(kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.308) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.308 [root@endor root]# rpm -ivh /root/Desktop/kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.308.i686.rpm /root/Desktop/kernel-2.6.5-1.308.i686.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] warning: setexeccon(root:staff_r:rpm_script_t) fails from context "root:staff_r:staff_t": Invalid argument Continuing ... 1:kernel ########################################### [ 50%] warning: setexeccon(root:staff_r:rpm_script_t) fails from context "root:staff_r:staff_t": Invalid argument Continuing ... WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.308/unsupported/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko needs unknown symbol sleep_on warning: setexeccon(root:staff_r:rpm_script_t) fails from context "root:staff_r:staff_t": Invalid argument Continuing ... 2:kernel-smp ########################################### [100%] warning: setexeccon(root:staff_r:rpm_script_t) fails from context "root:staff_r:staff_t": Invalid argument Continuing ... WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.308smp/unsupported/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko needs unknown symbol sleep_on [root@endor root]# rpm -q kernel-smp kernel-smp-2.6.4-1.305 kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.308 [root@endor root]#
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119208 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.