upgrade F7 to F8 problems

[Kam Leo]

On Nov 11, 2007 7:16 AM, Claude Jones <cjones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> In general, using yum upgrade on two machines has gone well.
> On both, I have a problem I can't resolve. I have ended up with two versions
> of avahi.
>
> # rpm -qa | grep avahi
> avahi-0.6.21-6.fc8
> avahi-qt3-0.6.21-6.fc8
> avahi-compat-howl-0.6.21-6.fc8
> avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.21-6.fc8
> avahi-devel-0.6.21-6.fc8
> kdnssd-avahi-devel-0.1.3-0.2.20060713svn.fc8
> kdnssd-avahi-0.1.3-0.2.20060713svn.fc8
> avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7
> avahi-glib-0.6.21-6.fc8
>
> So, I have two versions of avahi, now - the fc7 and fc8
> Attempts to remove avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7 result in an error:
>
> # rpm -e avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7
> error: %postun(avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
>
> I get a similar message using smart, yum, or kpackage
>
> Can anyone give me an idea of how to proceed?
>
> Oh yes, and this is the third try at sending this email - I'm getting messages
> saying the redhat server is having trouble doing a virus scan on this
> text-only, non-html message....
> --
> Claude Jones
> Brunswick, MD, USA

A good reason to do a new install versus an upgrade. But that is
besides the point. Have you tried "rpm -e --noscripts  ...."?