A new question has been posted to the Knowledgebase: MariaDB 5.2.x server RPM fails on upgrades - error: scriptlet failed, exit status 1 http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-52x-server-rpm-fails-on-upgrades-error-scr... --------------------------------------------------------------------- This problem occurs on CentOS 5.5/5.6/6.0 32bit and 64bit from first time I used MariaDB 5.2.3 all the way to 5.2.9 upgrade. It happens 1) via manual RPM upgrade from RPM downloaded at http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.2/#file_type=rpm or 2) via ourdelta YUM REPO update http://ourdelta.org/centos (yum update MariaDB*). Problem, MariaDB-server-5.2.x RPM updates fails and needs manually removing previous version MariaDB-server-5.2.x RPM before the new update installs. error error: %pre(MariaDB-server-5.2.9-102.el5.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping MariaDB-server-5.2.9-102.el5 full details below ... (continued in the KB) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks. -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org