Re: FC5 rpm database corrupt [Solved]

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Paul Howarth wrote:
Claude Jones wrote:
On Tuesday June 13 2006 03:58, Paul Howarth wrote:
I believe that the cause of this particular problem is that the FC5
out-of-the-box SELinux policy does not assign the correct context type
to yumex and it does not execute the rpm scriptlets in the correct
SELinux domain as a result, which causes the failures you've seen.
Updating the SELinux packages (and possibly yumex) first using yum
*should* result in a working yumex.

Paul: This is not clear to me - my machine that produced all the problems over the past days is a fresh install, updated daily over the past 2 weeks. Yumex and SELinux policies are at current versions from Core/Updates/Extras - Yumex is ver yumex-1.0.1-1.0.fc5; are you saying that I should have selectively updated Yumex and SELinux before running any other updates from day 1?

The FC5 selinux policy itself does not set the correct context for yumex, which causes scriptlets to fail, which in turn causes lots of mysterious problems:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186076

It is not safe to use yumex on FC5 with SELinux in enforcing mode until selinux-policy has been updated to at least 2.2.25-3.fc5.

To answer your question: yes, you need to update selinux-policy using some method other than yumex before updating anything using yumex.

Paul.


running 'setenforce 0' before running yumex should allow successful upgrading also. After the initial update, I presume setting SELinux to permissive would not be needed. Scriptlets should work successfully.

I'm sort of 'gun shy' after past scriptlet failures and set the system to permissive before updating it. Then I set selnux active again when updating is completed.

Jim

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