errors? on OMSA RPM install on CentOS5

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:04:14PM -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to install all the OMSA stuff on a poweredge 2850 running
> CentOS5. I did the following:
> 
> wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> yum install srvadmin-all
> 
> and got the following "errors":

... cut ...

> Dependencies Resolved
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
>   Installing: srvadmin-syscheck            ####################### [ 1/31]
> srvadmin-deng:
> RPM option [--prefix] is required
> Systems Management is installed at : /tmp/dellupdatepackage-hapi-3958-12747
> Cannot continue, please reinstall with --prefix
> /tmp/dellupdatepackage-hapi-3958-12747
> error: %pre(srvadmin-deng-5.3.0-438.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping srvadmin-deng-5.3.0-438

Are you *absolutely sure* that you never ran *any* Dell Update Packages
on this machine before you attempted to install omsa via the yum
repositories? Did you run *any* downloaded files from support.dell.com
at all prior to this?

The error message above refers to /tmp/dellupdatepackage... and this
path is only used by Dell Update Packages as far as I can see. So, the
only way I can see that this situation would have happened is if
something had been run from support.dell.com. This is usually a BIOS
update or a BMC update or something like that. There is no other way
that I can see where you would ever get a reference to
/tmp/dellupdatepackage any other way.
--
Michael