scriptlets fail for me

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 5/26/05, Nifty Hat Mitch <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> I get pre and post scriptlet errors for a number of
> recent updates.  Is there an easy way to debug them?
> 
>   Updating  : evince                       ######################### [1/2]
> error: %post(evince-0.3.1-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 255


rpm -q --scripts evince

the postinstall scriptlet is the important one in this case since you
recieved the error during "Updating". If you had seen the error during
"Cleanup" it would have been postuninstall scriptlet.

attempt to execute each step in the scriptlet and see which step fails

-jef