Random rpm script failures

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:13:55PM -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> Rawhide...I've been seeing random script failures like this: exit code 255.
..... 
> error: %post(libcap-1.10-23.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
>   2:libgtk-java            ########################################### 
> [ 33%]
> error: %post(libgtk-java-2.8.1-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255

That may be related to messed up "alternatives". 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171843
was already mentioned today.  See discussion there.

> 
> [root at cobra packages]# rpm -q tar --scripts
> postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> /sbin/install-info /usr/share/info/tar.info.gz /usr/share/info/dir
> preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> if [ $1 = 0 ]; then
>   /sbin/install-info --delete /usr/share/info/tar.info.gz 
> /usr/share/info/dir
> fi
....
> ... but now I'm starting to 
> suspect that only my system is broken...  ideas?

Did you try saving such failig scripts to a file, editing results
accordingly so that will be indeed a correct script to run and
running that?  Possibly with 'sh -x ...'?  This may provide you with
some clues why things are unhappy on your system.  My particular
test boxes seem to be doing mostly ok.

   Michal