Watch out for new nfs-utils update!

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Alexander Apprich wrote:

> Hi Matthew,
>
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> The update from nfs-utils-1.0.7-8 to 1.0.7-10 (using up2date) failed, 
>> leaving both versions installed.  I ended up having to remove both RPM, 
>> which also failed, because after the files are deleted by one, the other 
>> one can't find the files it needs to shut down NFS services.  So I deleted 
>> them with the --justdb flag.  Then up2date installed the later one 
>> succcessfully.
>> 
>> I suggest removing the old nfs-utils by hand and then reinstalling the new 
>> one.
>> 
>
> no problem here. I updated using yum this morning...
>
> apprich at elmstreet apprich $ rpm -qa | grep -i ^nfs
> nfs-utils-1.0.7-10

Might be an up2date thing, but it happened on three of my machines, all of 
which are standard FC4 with no NFS configurations in place and all 
previously up2date.  The symptom was that running up2date from the command 
line produced errors about scriptlets failing.

Anybody else seen this?

>
> Alex
>
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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