Anaconda-devel October 2004

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anaconda hangs after parport (FC2 & FC3)
by Abe Shelton 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

Greetings, We have a couple of dual PIII Boxx Technologies boxes here that anaconda consistently hangs on shortly after the check media md5sum menu. We've tried both FC2 or FC3Beta boot media, and using the boot options such as "linux text noprobe" all to no avail. Right before the box locks up (hard, no capslock, ctrl-alt-del, no nothing), anaconda shows: on vt3: *inserted /tmp/parport.ko on vt4: <6>device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) init ... We've tried assorted SCSI controllers, VGA cards, etc, and every anaconda option we can find but nothing seems to work. (http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaISOLINUXOptions) Perhaps there is a way to cause anaconda to show more debugging output? Or to have it step through its install instructions one at a time? Any hints or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks! Abe

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comps.xml on RHEL U3
by Effie Baram 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Dear list I've search virtually everywhere for a guide/document/email describing the steps necessary to create a custom distribtution based on RHEL and unfortunately found none. Back in the days (RH7.x-RH9) you had to edit comps.xml remove the packages section,recreate the dependency tree, append it to the end of comps...etc.etc. on RHEL I don't see the dependency tree so I wonder where are the dependencies verified/checked? I saw one line somewhere suggesting that starting FD2 it's optional but what does optional mean ? only when adding packages? I have created a set of my own custom packages that I wanted to drop into the distribution. Do i simply need to add a line to comps.xml and recreate hdlist? I would greatly appreciate if anyone had the step by step of what needs to be done to customize RHEL and can share it. Thanks! Effie _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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No network selection during Kickstarted FC3RC3 build
by Nick 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

This is what I did in Core1 to get the network section to come up during a kickstart when there was no entry in the ks.cfg file. It doesn't work anymore. any Ideas?? Copy stage2.img in the Core3/Fedora/base/stage2.img to /tmp mkdir /mnt/img mount -o loop /tmp/stage2.img /mnt/img cd /mnt/img tar cvf /tmp/stage2.tar . cd /tmp mkdir stage2 cd stage2 tar xvf /tmp/stage2.tar in the /tmp/stage2/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py comment out the line: dispatch.skipStep("network") cd /tmp and umount /mnt/img remove the stage2.tar and the current stage2.img file 'mkcramfs stage2/ stage2.img' to generate the new stage2.img copy the stage2.img back into the source tree CD.

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Re: error in executing buildinstall
by Manilal K M 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

Hi All i m facing a problem in executing buildinstall utility to create installer image. 1) not able to create anaconda directory while executing this which is created by buildinstall utility itself path(/current path/redhat/instimage/usr/lib/) 2) mkfontdir command within the buildinstall file fails to create the folowing directories /current path/redhat/instimage/usr/sharefonts/ISO8559-9/* in next step we find that /current path/redhat/instimage/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir itsself not created. later while scrubbing trees i find that /current path/image-template/usr/sbin/anaconda directory doesn't exist. Ms. Tanu Agarwal, Can you share the output u got while running buildinstall . I think then I can help you regards Manilal -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Re: error in executing buildinstall
by Manilal K M 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

Hi All i m facing a problem in executing buildinstall utility to create installer image. 1) not able to create anaconda directory while executing this which is created by buildinstall utility itself path(/current path/redhat/instimage/usr/lib/) 2) mkfontdir command within the buildinstall file fails to create the folowing directories /current path/redhat/instimage/usr/sharefonts/ISO8559-9/* in next step we find that /current path/redhat/instimage/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir itsself not created. later while scrubbing trees i find that /current path/image-template/usr/sbin/anaconda directory doesn't exist. Ms. Tanu Agarwal, Can you share the ouput u got while running buildinstall . I think then I can help you regards Manilal -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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error in executing buildinstall
by Tanu Agarwal 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

Hi All i m facing a problem in executing buildinstall utility to create installer image. 1) not able to create anaconda directory while executing this which is created by buildinstall utility itself path(/current path/redhat/instimage/usr/lib/) 2) mkfontdir command within the buildinstall file fails to create the folowing directories /current path/redhat/instimage/usr/sharefonts/ISO8559-9/* in next step we find that /current path/redhat/instimage/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir itsself not created. later while scrubbing trees i find that /current path/image-template/usr/sbin/anaconda directory doesn't exist. Thanx Regards Tanu

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rescue mode network config
by Sameer Kamat 28 Oct '04

28 Oct '04

Hi, I want to mount my root drive and transfer files over to another box in rescue mode. If I configure the network using the text interface provided after the rescue mode is selected the speed of transfer is great. But if I answer no to that question and go to a shell and type ifconfig eth0 {IP} up and then do the transfer the speed is terrible. I am not very knowledgable about Python, but in rescue.py of stage2.img in /usr/lib/anaconda, what is so different if we configure the network here or later at the shell? Here is the snippet of code I am referring to : def runRescue(instPath, mountroot, id): for file in [ "services", "protocols", "group", "joe", "man.config", "nsswitch.conf", "security" ]: os.symlink('/mnt/runtime/etc/' + file, '/etc/' + file) ###### This is the section ###### # see if they would like networking enabled if not methodUsesNetworking(id.methodstr): screen = SnackScreen() while 1: rc = ButtonChoiceWindow(screen, _("Setup Networking"), _("Do you want to start the network interfaces on " "this system?"), [_("Yes"), _("No")]) if rc != string.lower(_("No")): intf = RescueInterface(screen) # need to call sequence of screens, have to look in text.py # # this code is based on main loop in text.py, and if it # or the network step in dispatch.py change significantly # then this will certainly break # pyfile = "network_text" classNames = ("NetworkDeviceWindow", "NetworkGlobalWindow") lastrc = INSTALL_OK step = 0 dir = 1 while 1: s = "from %s import %s; nextWindow = %s" % \ (pyfile, classNames[step], classNames[step]) exec s win = nextWindow() if classNames[step] == "NetworkDeviceWindow": args = (id.network, dir, intf, 0) else: args = (id.network, dir, intf) rc = apply(win, (screen, ) + args) if rc == INSTALL_NOOP: rc = lastrc if rc == INSTALL_BACK: step = step - 1 dir = - 1 elif rc == INSTALL_OK: step = step + 1 dir = 1 lastrc = rc if step == -1: ButtonChoiceWindow(screen, _("Cancelled"), _("I can't go to the previous step " "from here. You will have to try " "again."), buttons=[_("OK")]) elif step >= len(classNames): break startNetworking(id.network, intf) break else: break screen.finish() #### end of section ### if (not mountroot): print print _("When finished please exit from the shell and your " "system will reboot.") print os.system("/bin/sh") sys.exit(0) # lets create some devices iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() # need loopback devices too for lpminor in range(8): dev = "loop%s" % (lpminor,) isys.makeDevInode(dev, "/dev/" + dev) screen = SnackScreen() intf = RescueInterface(screen) # prompt to see if we should try and find root filesystem and mount # everything in /etc/fstab on that root rc = ButtonChoiceWindow(screen, _("Rescue"), _("The rescue environment will now attempt to find your " "Linux installation and mount it under the directory " "%s. You can then make any changes required to your " "system. If you want to proceed with this step choose " "'Continue'. You can also choose to mount your file systems " "read-only instead of read-write by choosing 'Read-Only'." "\n\n" "If for some reason this process fails you can choose 'Skip' " "and this step will be skipped and you will go directly to a " "command shell.\n\n") % (instPath,), [_("Continue"), _("Read-Only"), _("Skip")] ) if rc == string.lower(_("Skip")): screen.finish() print print _("When finished please exit from the shell and your " "system will reboot.") print os.execv("/bin/sh", [ "-/bin/sh" ]) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sameer.

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noatime during install?
by Rudi Chiarito 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Hi, I was wondering if it would be such a stupid idea to have ext3 filesystems mounted with the noatime option during the installation. The switch would still be omitted by default in fstab, i.e. from the first boot on it would still default to off. I am not sure what kind of speedup you would see. I suppose it would help the most at the lower end, on systems where there isn't much RAM: the small disk cache on such machines already forces the system to seek left and right all the time. This would apply only to fresh installs. I guess that, for updating existing installations, Anaconda already uses the same options that the user has set in fstab. Are there any packages that would break if installed for the first time using noatime? -- Rudi

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TRANS.TBL ??
by BhaskerReddy Amireddy 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Hello all, what is the use of TRANS.TBL in RedHat9.0 CD's kind Regards, A Bhasker Reddy MCA Department Of Computer Science University Of Pune Pune India

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LANG=C in anaconda scripts ?
by Karsten Hopp 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Is there a reason why we don't set LANG=C in our scripts ? A buildinstall run takes up to 2 minutes less and I don't see any reasons to run the scripts with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Karsten -- Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> GPG 1024D/70ABD02C Fingerprint D2D4 3B6B 2DE4 464C A432 210A DFF8 A140 70AB D02C Red Hat Deutschland, Hauptstaetter Str.58 70178 Stuttgart, Tel.+49-711-96437-0, Fax +49-711-96437-111

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