Why is fontconfig.i386 failing to install in RHEL5?

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Issue

When installing fontconfig.i386 it give error message and yum exit with 1. This stopping our installation. This problem not occur every time.

Running Transaction
Installing     : freetype                                                 1/5
Installing     : fontconfig                                               2/5/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera: failed to write cache

error: %post(fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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