yum update fails with "Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package libcgroup"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Red Hat Network (RHN)

Issue

  • yum update fails with below error messages:

    Running Transaction
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package libcgroup-0.37-2.el6.x86_64
error: %pre(libcgroup-0.37-2.el6.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping libcgroup-0.37-2.el6
libcgroup-0.36.1-6.el6_0.1.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not!

Failed:
  libcgroup.x86_64 0:0.37-2.el6

Resolution

  • As manuall rpm installation fails after "groupadd cgred" step, run this command manually and then install latest version of libcgroup package.
# getent group cgred >/dev/null || groupadd cgred

Diagnostic Steps

  • Install libcgroup package manually using "rpm -ivvvh libcgroup-0.37-2.el6.x86_64.rpm" ,

    # rpm -ivvvh libcgroup-0.37-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
D: ============== libcgroup-0.37-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
D: loading keyring from pubkeys in /var/lib/rpm/pubkeys/*.key
.
.
+ getent group cgred
+ groupadd cgred
D:   install: waitpid(12945) rc 12945 status 100 secs 0.042
error: %pre(libcgroup-0.37-2.el6.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping libcgroup-0.37-2

from the above output can see that rpm installation fails after "groupadd cgred" step .

  • Component
  • yum

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