When I upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, why do I see "scriplet failed" messages in upgrade.log?

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Symptoms:

Below is the example of error message in upgrade.log when I try to upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4:

Upgrading iputils-20020927-18.EL4.3.x86_64.
*error: *%preun(iputils-20020927-11.30.5.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
Upgrading libgcc-3.4.6-3.i386.
*error:* %post(libgcc-3.4.6-3.i386) scriptlet failed, e...

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