Description of problem: While resolving bug 850310 I encountered on some boxes the following (harmless) message during the "yum upgrade sendmail": Failed to issue method call: File exists This seems to be caused by alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail Which calls systemctl -q enable. There was: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/sendmail.service -> /lib/systemd/system/sendmail.service So the link to /lib was wrong (but working), it was probably the artefact of previous system upgrade. The message gone if called systemctl -qf enable Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): chkconfig-1.3.59-2.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce (on 64 bit): 1. ln -fs /lib/systemd/system/sendmail.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/sendmail.service 2. alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail Actual results: Failed to issue method call: File exists Expected results: No message Additional info: The configuration of the affected boxes were wrong probably due to some previous bug. But I think using the -f option is harmless and may resolve other similar problems, from the man: --force, -f When used with enable, overwrite any existing conflicting symlinks.
Created attachment 702742 [details] Proposed patch
Thanks for the patch, I will include it in next release of chkconfig.
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