up2date: scriptlet failed, exit status 255

[David Bloomfield]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 13:14 -0400, Shane Presley wrote:
> 
> 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

I've also started seeing this, with both %pre and %post scriptlets.

In the %post case, the package does get installed, but without whatever
actions were in the %post scriptlet.

Packages without either %pre or %post seem to install fine.

David