up2date: scriptlet failed, exit status 255

[Shane Presley]

Hello,

I have a Dell 1850 running RHEL4.

When trying to add new packages, or even run up2date on existing
packages, I get this error...

error: %pre(packagename) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping packagename

(for whatever packagename is)

For example, here is when I try to install bind...

up2date bind

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4...
########################################

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4-extras...

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
bind                                    9.2.4          2                 i386


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
bind-9.2.4-2.i386.rpm:      ########################## Done.
Preparing              ########################################### [100%]
error: %pre(bind-9.2.4-2.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping bind-9.2.4-2

Any ideas?
Thanks
Shane