Description of problem: # yum update -y g\* blah ... blah ... Updating : glibc-2.14.1-5.x86_64 1/10 Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package glibc-2.14.1-5.x86_64 /usr/sbin/glibc_post_upgrade: While trying to execute /sbin/service child exited with exit code 1 warning: %post(glibc-2.14.1-5.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Updating : glibc-common-2.14.1-5.x86_64 2/10 Updating : glibc-headers-2.14.1-5.x86_64 3/10 Updating : glibc-devel-2.14.1-5.x86_64 4/10 Updating : gtk2-2.24.7-3.fc15.x86_64 5/10 Cleanup : glibc-devel-2.14-5.x86_64 6/10 Cleanup : glibc-headers-2.14-5.x86_64 7/10 Cleanup : gtk2-2.24.4-2.fc15.x86_64 8/10 Cleanup : glibc-2.14-5.x86_64 9/10 Cleanup : glibc-common-2.14-5.x86_64 10/10 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F16 x86_64, updating to glibc-2.14.1-5.x86_64
Sorry, this is Fedora 15, not 16
Near the end of the glibc upgrade process it will attempt to restart the sshd service. glibc checks for the existence of various files related to the sshd service, and if they're all found, it restarts the service. What is the output from running the following as root: /sbin/service sshd condrestart
# Doesn't look good: # tail -f /var/log/messages & [1] 26132 # /sbin/service sshd condrestart Restarting sshd (via systemctl): Feb 7 15:02:51 mb04-001 systemd[1]: sshd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255 Feb 7 15:02:51 xyz01-001 systemd[1]: Unit sshd.service entered failed state. [ OK ]
What version of systemd are you running? rpm -q systemd Older than systemd-26-10.fc15? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 698198 ***