Description of problem:
  Issued 'yum upgrade' on RHEL 5.8 host.  Transaction started and ran until I saw the package madm and then seemed to hang.  This was later in the day, so I went home.  Upon arriving to the office, the upgrade had not progressed.  I hit ctrl-C the upgrade halted and printed out this:

Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package 1:nfs-utils-1.0.9-60.el5.x86_64
error: %pre(nfs-utils-1.0.9-60.el5.x86_64) scriptlet failed, signal 2
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping nfs-utils-1.0.9-60.el5

The I issued yum upgrade --exclude nfs-utils-1.0.9-60.el5

which resulted in:

Downloading Packages:
nfs-utils-1.0.9-54.el5.x86_64.rpm                        | 404 kB     00:00     
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
cyrus-sasl-lib is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-4.x86_64
Complete!
(1, [u'Please report this error in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux%205&component=yum'])

Then I issued yum-complete-transaction which resulted in:

Transaction size changed - this means we are not doing the
same transaction as we were before. Aborting.
To remove, use: yum-complete-transaction --cleanup

Now yum upgrade and yum update result in the "ERROR with rpm check_debug...."

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Yum Version: 3.2.22

How reproducible:

This is the only system I have in this state??  To reproduce the error output, I just issue either yum upgrade on update commands and everytime it spits out the error.

Steps to Reproduce:

1.  yum upgrade or yum update
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Actual results:
ERROR

Expected results:
upgrade or update of the installed packages


Additional info: