On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 01:19:24PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I'm upgrading to glibc 2.2.4-27 (including the usual -common and > -devel; I don't use -profile). In fact I have it running now. rpm > --verify reports all three are installed fine. > > However, if I try to reinstall glibc using "rpm -U --replacepkgs > glibc-2.2.4-27.i386.rpm" I get "% post scriptlet failed", and if I try > -common I get "% pre scriptlet failed". When the first, at least, > happens, *everything* stops working (well, presumably every program > that depends on the glibc dynamic library; in fact a couple of > staticly linked programs I found do still run). > [snip] > I'm running now, but I believe my next upgrade will fail in the same > way, so I'd really like to figure out WTF is going on and fix it. > Anybody got a spare clue? Yes, I suspect you're using --nodeps and/or --force somewhere, that's a bad idea, instead you should use apt, or up2date to upgrade all of the packages that depend on $XYZ version of glibc at the same time. Also: rpm -q glibc glibc-2.2.5-37 that's the latest release for 7.3, what are you running? > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203