[yocto] %pre scriptlet failed in Guestfish

[Mark Hatle]

On 11/27/15 5:56 AM, Alexandre Freire da Silva Osorio wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> Thanks for your attention. 
> 
> In fact there's nothing in PRE script of the rpm that could cause the error, it just executes a 'exit 0'. I really don't know what can be the cause. More than this, why the error doesn't occur when running on a QEMU VM, just inside guestfish.

In order to run the 'exit 0', it needs to run the shell.  So it's trying to run
either /bin/sh or /bin/bash (not sure) and it's being stopped.

--Mark

> Regards,
> Alexandre
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hatle [mailto:mark.hatle at windriver.com] 
> Sent: segunda-feira, 23 de novembro de 2015 12:28
> To: Alexandre Freire da Silva Osorio <alexandre.osorio at eldorado.org.br>; yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] %pre scriptlet failed in Guestfish
> 
> On 11/23/15 6:39 AM, Alexandre Freire da Silva Osorio wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Running an image built with Yocto 1.8 in Guestfish I get the following error when trying to install a RPM package:
> 
> I don't know what Guestfish is.  But in these cases, the best way to handle it is to us 'rpm -q --scriptlets <package>'
> 
> And then run the commands manually, in the same environment as RPM would run in, to verify failure modes.
> 
>> sh "cd /home/root; rpm -ivh --nodeps package.rpm"
>> libguestfs: trace: sh "cd /home/root; rpm -ivh --nodeps package.rpm"
>> guestfsd: error: error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping package.x86_64
>> libguestfs: trace: sh = NULL (error)
>> libguestfs: error: sh: error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping package.x86_64
>>
>> This error doesn't occur ehqne running the same image in QEMU. Please could anyone give me a help?
> 
> The error above -appears- to indicate it tried to the 'sh', but there was no 'sh' in your environment.
> 
> --Mark
> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alexandre
>>
>