Updating device-mapper-event fails with 'The running dmeventd instance is too old' in RHEL 5 or 6

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Issue

  • When updating packages with yum, the following error is displayed and subsequent packages are not installed:
    WARNING: The running dmeventd instance is too old.
    Protocol version 0 (required: 1). Action cancelled.
    error: %post(device-mapper-event-1.02.67-2.el5.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
  • After the update fails, two versions of device-mapper-event are installed.
    # rpm -qa |grep device-mapper-event
    device-mapper-event-1.02.67-2.el5
    device-mapper-event-1.02.63-4.el5
  • After the update fails, the old version of dmeventd is still running, rather than the newly installed version.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Update 8
    • Updating device-mapper-event from a version prior to 1.02.67-2.el5 to that version or higher
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
    • Updating device-mapper-event to a version prior to 1.02.79-8.el6

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