yum update -- error: %postun(hal-0.5.7-5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 17:46 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
>   Cleanup   : hal                          ####################### [94/96]
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.89477: line 4: z#fi: command not found
> error: %postun(hal-0.5.7-5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
>   Cleanup   : hal                          ####################### [95/96]
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.75836: line 4: z#fi: command not found
> error: %postun(hal-0.5.7-6.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
>   Cleanup   : hal                          ####################### [96/96]

This is a bug in an old rawhide version of hal -- unfortunately, it's in
the scriptlet, so you have to remove it by hand.  
    rpm -e hal-0.5.7-[56] --justdb

should do the trick

Jeremy