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[axet@localhost modules]$ sudo rpm -i ~/Download/VirtualBox-1.6.2_31466_fedora8-1.i586.rpm
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.49962: line 19: 3742 Done find /lib/modules -name "vboxdrv\.*" 2> /dev/null
3743 Aborted | xargs rm -f 2> /dev/null
error: %pre(VirtualBox-1.6.2_31466_fedora8-1.i586) scriptlet failed, exit status 134
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping VirtualBox-1.6.2_31466_fedora8-1
[axet@localhost modules]$

Hmm, cannot reproduce that problem here. Do you have any idea? Is the %pre script executed with -x or something like that?

i think there problem in update script. they can't find previous version of virtualbox and fail... i wil try to extract rpm and look at scripts..

i got one error message in audit.log with setenforce 0

type=ANOM_ABEND msg=audit(1213969024.080:45): auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 ses=1 subj=system_u:system_r:rpm_script_t:s0 pid=1051 comm="xargs" sig=6

[root@localhost Download]# find /lib/modules -name "vboxdrv\.*" | xargs rm -f
xargs: xargs.c:445: main: Assertion `bc_ctl.arg_max <= (131072-2048)' failed.
Aborted
[root@localhost Download]#

i report a bug to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452238

Ah, so it seams that this is a bug of xargs. Thank you for investigating this!

There is an xargs bug in fedora core 8 (and possible other releases) which has been resolved in fedora rawhide (the latest development as of the date of this posting; http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide).

Running 'xargs' on the command line produces the error:
----
xargs: xargs.c:445: main: Assertion `bc_ctl.arg_max <= (131072-2048)' failed.
Aborted
----
See the bug report here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439593

When an rpm upgrade or install of virtualbox is run on fedora core 8, this error is thrown:
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rpm -ihv VirtualBox-1.6.4_33808_fedora8-1.i586.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70344: line 19: 3722 Broken pipe find /lib/modules -name "vboxdrv\.*" 2> /dev/null
3723 Aborted | xargs rm -f 2> /dev/null
error: %pre(VirtualBox-1.6.4_33808_fedora8-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 134
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping VirtualBox-1.6.4_33808_fedora8-1

find /lib/modules -name "vboxdrv\.*" 2>/dev/null|xargs rm -f 2> /dev/null
Aborted
----

This error is caused by this line in the rpm script:
find /lib/modules -name "vboxdrv\.*" 2>/dev/null|xargs rm -f 2> /dev/null

To view the script, use:
rpm --scripts -qp VirtualBox-1.6.4_33808_fedora8-1.i586.rpm

To workaround this problem, add this line

INSTALL_NO_VBOXDRV=1

to file

/etc/default/virtualbox

If this file does not exist then create it and add the line above. This workaround can be found in the rpm script.

Regards,

Nick Steffens

Actually it seems that even the normal Fedora8 packages are updated properly since I cannot reproduce this problem here (using a Fedora8 jail).

I've upgraded findutils from version findutils-4.2.31-2.fc8 to version findutils.i386 1:4.4.0-1.fc10 from the development repo.

yum --enablerepo=development update findutils

This has fixed the problem with xargs. I'm not sure why findutils had not updated to a working version of xargs.

Regards,

Nick Steffens