[ATrpms-users] problem removing kernels

[john bray]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 16:22 -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/3/07, john bray <john at johnbray.name> wrote:
>         hello all -
>         
>         i accidentally intalled a PAE kernel once.  and ended up with
>         more of
>         them installed by smart.
>         
>         but, i can't remove them.  i keep getting these error messages
>         (running
>         as root):
>         Output from
>         kernel-suspend2-PAE-2.6.20-1.2948_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2 at i686:
>         /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.79688: line 4: /sbin/new-kernel-pkg-suspend2:
>         Permission denied
>         error: %
>         post(kernel-suspend2-PAE-2.6.20-1.2948_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2.i686 )
>         scriptlet failed, exit status 126
>         
>         /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.22942: line 1: /sbin/new-kernel-pkg-suspend2:
>         Permission denied
>         error: %
>         preun(kernel-suspend2-PAE-2.6.20-1.2948_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2.i686)
>         scriptlet failed, exit status 126 
>         /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.22942: line 1: /sbin/new-kernel-pkg-suspend2:
>         Permission denied
>         error: %
>         preun(kernel-suspend2-PAE-2.6.20-1.2933_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2.i686)
>         scriptlet failed, exit status 126
>         /var/tmp/rpm- tmp.22942: line
>         1: /sbin/new-kernel-pkg-suspend2:
>         Permission denied
>         error: %
>         preun(kernel-suspend2-PAE-2.6.20-1.2925_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2.i686)
>         scriptlet failed, exit status 126
>         /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.22942: line
>         1: /sbin/new-kernel-pkg-suspend2: 
>         Permission denied
>         error: %
>         preun(kernel-suspend2-PAE-2.6.20-1.2944_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2.i686)
>         scriptlet failed, exit status 126
> 
> 
> Maybe
> 
> rpm -e  .......  --nopreun 

thanks paulo!  you made my week!  :-)

john


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