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When uninstalling hadoop-hive, if, somehow, the alternatives have been blown away, the RPM refuses to uninstall. I recommend changing:
- alternatives --remove hive-conf /etc/hive/conf.dist + alternatives --remove hive-conf /etc/hive/conf.dist || true
I'm not quite sure how the machine I was working with got into that state, but I was able to recover it by re-creating the alternative. The relevant bits of my mucking around are pasted in below.
[philip@trek23 ~]$ sudo rpm -vv -e hadoop-hive D: loading keyring from pubkeys in /var/lib/rpm/pubkeys/*.key D: couldn't find any keys in /var/lib/rpm/pubkeys/*.key D: loading keyring from rpmdb D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm cdb:mpool:joinenv D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0 D: read h# 631 Header sanity check: OK D: added key gpg-pubkey-0608b895-4bd22942 to keyring D: Using legacy gpg-pubkey(s) from rpmdb D: read h# 6131 Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID e8f86acd: NOKEY D: read h# 6131 Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID e8f86acd: NOKEY D: ========== --- hadoop-hive-0.7.1+42.4-2 noarch/linux 0x0 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Requirename rdonly mode=0x0 D: ========== recording tsort relations D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors, tree, depth) D: 0 0 0 0 1 -hadoop-hive-0.7.1+42.4-2.noarch D: erasing packages D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Requirename D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm cdb:mpool:joinenv D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42 D: sanity checking 1 elements D: running pre-transaction scripts D: computing 4666 file fingerprints D: computing file dispositions D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames create mode=0x42 D: 0x0000fd00 4096 3677966 1078847 / D: ========== +++ hadoop-hive-0.7.1+42.4-2 noarch-linux 0x0 D: read h# 6131 Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID e8f86acd: NOKEY D: erase: hadoop-hive-0.7.1+42.4-2 has 4666 files, test = 0 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name create mode=0x42 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Triggername create mode=0x42 D: erase: %preun(hadoop-hive-0.7.1+42.4-2.noarch) scriptlet start D: erase: %preun(hadoop-hive-0.7.1+42.4-2.noarch) execv(/bin/sh) pid 11515 + '[' 0 = 0 ']' + alternatives --remove hive-conf /etc/hive/conf.dist D: erase: waitpid(11515) rc 11515 status 200 secs 0.002 error: %preun(hadoop-hive-0.7.1+42.4-2.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 2 D: running post-transaction scripts D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Triggername D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm [philip@trek23 ~]$ sudo alternatives --install / hive-conf / 99 [philip@trek23 ~]$ sudo alternatives --install / hive-conf /etc/hive/conf.dist 99 [philip@trek23 ~]$ sudo alternatives --display hive-conf hive-conf - status is auto. link currently points to / / - priority 99 /etc/hive/conf.dist - priority 99 Current `best' version is /. [philip@trek23 ~]$ sudo alternatives --remove hive-conf /etc/hive/conf.dist || echo hi [philip@trek23 ~]$ sudo alternatives --install / hive-conf /etc/hive/conf.dist 99 [philip@trek23 ~]$ sudo rpm -e hadoop-hive [success]