glibc scriptlet failure on todays f15 update

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Thu Aug 11 07:25:49 UTC 2011


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:59:03PM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> 
> 
>  When I updated today I got this:
> 
>   Updating   : glibc-2.14-5.x86_64
>                                    2/115
> Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package glibc-2.14-5.x86_64
> /usr/sbin/glibc_post_upgrade: While trying to execute /sbin/service
> child exited with exit code 1
> warning: %post(glibc-2.14-5.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

systemd is just buggy, see #698198.
In particular, when it is reexecing, systemctl or service requests shouldn't
just fail without any waiting till it comes up again (of course with some
reasonable timeout).  All systemd predecessors behaved sanely in this case.

	Jakub


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