Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 247959
F7 upgrade fails: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:10 EST
Description of problem: Attempting to upgrade an FC6 install to F7 produces an exception traceback. The end of this file is: Upgrading python-docs - 2.4.3-1.1.noarch Upgrading cyrus-sasl-md5 - 2.1.22-4.i386 Upgrading k3b - 0.12.15-3.1.1.i386 Upgrading xfig - 3.2.4-21.1.i386 Upgrading gimp-devel - 2:2.2.13-1.fc6.i386 Upgrading system-config-bind - 4.0.1-2.fc6.noarch Upgrading hwbrowser - 0.27-2.noarch /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No such file or directory error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 I will attach the complete log to this report. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC6 -> F7 How reproducible: It's repeatable on my system. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start F7 upgrade using VNC method from local CDROM 2. Proceed past the Grub update screens 3. Boom! Actual results: Upgrade halts with an exception. Expected results: Happiness. Additional info: Presumably this is some quirk of my install? I couldn't see this on the top bugs list but the site was really slow this morning and I couldn't do as much searching as I'd liked.
Created attachment 159040 [details] Exception log produced by anaconda
Removing the compat-glibc package will fix this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242604 ***
Unfortunately, removing compat-glibc hasn't stopped this error happening, nor has rpm --rebuilddb. Is there anything else I can try?
Ok I have now solved it after several hours this morning spent finding and removing obsolete packages. In summary: Get a list of packages with package-cleanup --obsoletes from yum-utils. Scan this list very carefully, take any important third party packages and any that you've updated from rawhide as well as kernel packages etc off the list. Cross reference this list with the output of rpm -q -a --last to get confidence that these are packages hanging over from a previous release. Then feed the remaining obsolete packages on the list to rpm --erase. Now upgrade to F7.