Anaconda-devel December 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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buildinstall in RHEL 3
by Brian Long 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

Running buildinstall from RHEL 3 Update 3's anaconda-runtime, the script does not check $? for each command it runs. If a loopback mount fails, it just keeps on going like nothing is wrong. Have any updates to anaconda-runtime for RHEL 3 fixed these issues? I wasted a ton of time because buildinstall's loopback mounts were failing and I finally remembered why. We have /tmp mounted as tmpfs by default in our environment and loopback mounts don't work if you try to mount -o loop to /tmp/makebootdisk.tree.19705, for example. I've rebooted with tmpfs disabled in order to run buildinstall. Are patches accepted for RHEL 3's anaconda-runtime or only for CVS head? Thanks. /Brian/ -- Brian Long | | | IT Data Center Systems | .|||. .|||. Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s

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RE: Custom remaster of FC3, anaconda errors on install
by Edwards, Scott (GE Healthcare, non-ge) 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

I am having a similar problem. I have been building custom CD's since FC2 Test 1 and updating it to each new release as it came out until the FC2 release. I could not risk doing any of the FC3 test releases because they could have been unstable. So I have been trying to update to FC3 now and I am having the same problem as described below. I did notice one error/warning? message about there not being a dev package before the warning about "not all packages in hdlist had order tag". Could the no dev package thing have anything to do with the problem? I am going to see how my procedure for pkglist varies from the one outlined below (I can't remember since I wrote the script 9 months ago), perhaps that will fix the problem. I was just wondering if the dev package thing is normal now that there is udev? Thanks -Scott -----Original Message----- From: anaconda-devel-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:anaconda-devel-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of CP Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 5:51 PM To: Phil Meyer Cc: Anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Re: Custom remaster of FC3, anaconda errors on install Phil, I am very encouraged to see your post about remastering FC3, and I am glad that Earl has had success with your script as well. I however am about to go nuts trying to get this to work. (painful grin) I, like you (I think), am using the stock FC3 DVD tree, replacing RPMS with updated ones, and remastering the DVD iso to get a patched install DVD. I have been working on this since FC3 was released with no success. With FC2, I used only the following to update hdlist with consistent success: /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --productpath Fedora $FEDORAROOT where $FEDORAROOT is the root of the build tree When FC3 came out, I used the same command (which completed successfully), but then I also experienced installer crash immediately after "Preparing RPM Transaction", with the only terminal error being the infamous: "WARNING: not all packages in hdlist had order tag". After research it seemed that the pkglist/fileorder was now necessary with FC3 for some reason, so I tried the following: export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --productpath Fedora $FEDORAROOT /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder $FEDORAROOT i386 > $FEDORAROOT/Fedora/base/pkgorder /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --fileorder $FEDORAROOT/Fedora/base/pkgorder $FEDORAROOT This procedure, (as well as your script) fails at pkgorder consistently with the following loop: warning: ignore package name relation(s) [49] openoffice.org-libs - >openoffice.org warning: ignore package name relation(s) [50] gtk+ -> gdk-pixbuf warning: ignore package name relation(s) [51] nautilus -> nautilus-cd- burner warning: LOOP: warning: removing initscripts-8.01-1 "Requires: /sbin/nash" from tsort relations. warning: initscripts-8.01-1 Requires: /sbin/nash warning: mkinitrd-4.1.19-1 PreReq: dev warning: udev-039-10.FC3.6 PreReq: lvm2 warning: removing lvm2-2.00.25-1.01 "Requires: kernel >= 2.6" from tsort relations. warning: lvm2-2.00.25-1.01 Requires: kernel >= 2.6 warning: kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 PreReq: initscripts >= 5.83 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder", line 265, in ? group.select(selectOptional = 1) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/hdrlist.py", line 670, in select self.selectDeps([pkgnevra]) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/hdrlist.py", line 571, in selectDeps p = depMatch(dep, self.grpset.hdrlist) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/hdrlist.py", line 172, in depMatch l.append(f[0]) KeyboardInterrupt It seems to be some sort of looping dependency issue. I have tried rebuilding the DVD tree several times just to be sure I wasn't accidentally deleting something, but I am fairly confident that I am not doing something that obvious ;-) Anyway, I apologize for the lengthy history here, but I hope that you and/or other readers may have some insight. BTW: my build system is running FC3 patched daily, and I have also tried development versions of anaconda and anaconda-runtime with no success. Thanks !! Chris On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 20:46 +0000, Phil Meyer wrote: > Earl wrote: > > > > >We were able to create an ISO and boot it w/in VMWare, > >however, it dies at the very end of "Preparing RPM > >Transaction" with "Install exited abnormally". > > > >Documents above conflict on wheter or not it is > >necessary to modify .discinfo and/or > >comps.xml (since we have removed/added rpm's). > > > >Any ideas why anaconda may be crashing at this stage? > > > > > I have recently attempted this myself. For me, the key was: pkgorder > and the correct arguments to genhdlist. > > In the example below, my modified distro is unpacked at /big/FC3. I > created it by copying the contents of the DVD to /big/FC3, adding newer > packages to /big/FC3/Fedora/RPMS/. I got rid of the duplicates and > added lots of packages like mplayer, the dvd libraries, and such. In > order to use the new packages from kickstart, you must edit the > comps.xml and comps.rpm files. I haven't gotten that far yet, so I do > it from the post section in my ks.cfg file. The rpm program understands > URLs, so that makes it easy to add packages from post. Also, the ks= > directive understands URLs and thus is able to run a cgi script. We do > stuff like: > # linux text ks=http://10.7.23.106/cgi-bin/fc3.cgi?TYPE=desktop > And let the cgi script build an rpm request in the post install section > that looks like this: > > rpm -ih > http://10.7.23.106/ks/FC3/Fedora/RPMS/aalib-1.4.0-5.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm > http://10.7.23.106/ks/FC3/Fedora/RPMS/cdrdao-1.1.9-6.i386.rpm > http://10.7.23.106/ks/FC3/Fedora/RPMS/divx4linux-5.0.5-0.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm > http://10.7.23.106/ks/FC3/Fedora/RPMS/faad2-2.0-2.20040923.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm > http://10.7.23.106/ks/FC3/Fedora/RPMS/gtweakui-0.4.0-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm > http://10.7.23.106/ks/FC3/Fedora/RPMS/id3lib-3.8.3-4_1.rhfc2.92.at.i386.rpm > ... and all one line > > Anyways, here is the script I now use to make the modified distro usable > by anaconda: > > #!/bin/sh > PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda > export PYTHONPATH > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder /big/FC3 i386 Fedora > /tmp/pkglist > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --fileorder /tmp/pkglist > --withnumbers --productpath Fedora /big/FC3 > > Works like a champ. You will have to remove any duplicate packages that > gendhlist complains about, then try again, cleanup errors, and again > until it runs clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list

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Please make.
by T.T. Eiji Sato 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Please make Internet Radio...Monitor...portable...car accessary...in car navi.(World Wide Satellite.)

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Custom remaster of FC3, anaconda errors on install
by Earl 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Thanks for the quick replys yesterday... Obviously we're new to this (but making progress). Our goal is to create a minimized single CD distro with hands-off (kickstart) install. Therefore we have elliminated packages we do not need (dependency check passes). Working with Fedora CORE 3 and have followed steps in several available online documents: http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaDocumentationProject and http://bipolar.longbros.com/index.php?blog=5&p=29&c=1&page=1&more=1&tb=1&pb… but have settled on this because it looks like what we are trying to accomplish: http://insipid.com/RHOneCD.pdf We added our custom rpm's to the /RPMS/ dir and called them from ks.cfg but the install failed with "packaege does not exist" so we removed the calls from ks.cfg (packages remain the /RPMS/). We were able to create an ISO and boot it w/in VMWare, however, it dies at the very end of "Preparing RPM Transaction" with "Install exited abnormally". Documents above conflict on wheter or not it is necessary to modify .discinfo and/or comps.xml (since we have removed/added rpm's). Any ideas why anaconda may be crashing at this stage? Thanks a lot in advance! Earl __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

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parted fun (aka is updating parted all that's needed?)
by Matthew Miller 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Okay, I'll be highly surprised if this isn't Jeremy's least favorite thing in the world to hear about. There's so _much_ babble about this that I don't know which way is up. However, I've come to believe the following: - all that's needed to make the installer not have the infamous can't-get-along-with-Windows problem is to build anaconda against parted 1.6.19. True? -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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*my* anaconda lesson-learned for today
by Matthew Miller 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

"If you remove the i386 package from the tree, the i686 package isn't used automatically, and it will be very confusing for the whole afternoon, until you realize the reason it's saying /usr/bin/anaconda isn't found even though it's clearly *right there in the stage2.img* is that there's _no libc_, duh. And it's _really_ not worth hacking upd-instroot to make it work; just put the %#$ing thing back." Also: "The upside of being the only one working in the entire building is: Ramones, really really loud." Hopefully these two tips will be useful to someone else at some point. -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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buildinstall error while remaster FC3 CD
by Earl 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

Following the directions posted at: http://bipolar.longbros.com/index.php?blog=5&p=29&c=1&page=1&more=1&tb=1&pb… To "remaster" FC3 CD's and encountered the buildinstall error (below) on step 9. Any ideas? BTW: I get the same error even when running the mentioned process against a clean copy of CD #1 (no added/deleted rpms). buildinstall --pkgorder $FCBASE/fedora/pkgfile.`date +%Y-%m-%d` \ > --version 3 --product 'Fedora Core' --release 'Fedora Core 3' \ > --prodpath Fedora $FCBASE/fedora/i386 Running buildinstall... /usr/local/test/fedora/i386/buildinstall.tree.8148 /usr/local/test rpm2cpio: /usr/local/test/fedora/i386/Fedora/RPMS/anaconda-runtime-[0-9]*: No such file or directory cpio: premature end of archive /usr/local/test cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/test/fedora/i386/buildinstall.tree.8148/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/./upd-instroot*': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/test/fedora/i386/buildinstall.tree.8148/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/./mk-images*': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/test/fedora/i386/buildinstall.tree.8148/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/./makestamp.py*': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/test/fedora/i386/buildinstall.tree.8148/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/./buildinstall*': No such file or directory Going to run buildinstall again /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/buildinstall: line 133: /usr/local/test/fedora/i386/buildinstall.tree.8148/buildinstall: No such file or directory __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Suggestions invited for building installer images .
by neeraj pant 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

hi everybody, thru this medium i am presenting my problem in building installer images in customisation of redhat 7.3 version of linux. In my earlier efforts to bring up my problem i was unable to describe the thing exactly. Please be patient to read this one out... _______________________________________________________________________________ when i typed the command: /usr/bin/anaconda-runtime/buildinstall --comp dist-7.3 --pkgorder /redhat/pkgorder.txt --version 7.3 /redhat/i386 i got the following results which erased my earlier install images. _______________________________________________________________________________ Building images.. Assembling package list.. Expanding packages... retrieving timezones... cat : ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/lang-table* :No such file or directory Running mkfontdir.. /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir:failed to create directory in ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* rm: cannot remove 'ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir' :No such fle or directory Scrubbing trees.. ROOT/imge-template ln : creating symbolic link 'ROOTimage-template/usr/bin/raidstart' to '../lib/anaconda/raidstart-stub':No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin/raidstop'' to '../lib/anaconda/raidstop-stub':No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin/losetup' to '../lib/anaconda/losetup-stub':No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin/pump' to '../lib/anaconda/pump-stub':No such file or directory mv: cannot stat 'ROOT/image-template/usr/sbin/anaconda': No such file or directory /bin/cpio: 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin' exists but is not in directory /bin/cpio: 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin/../ash' exists but is not in directory /bin/cpio: 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin' exists but is not in directory /bin/cpio: 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin/../sh' exists but is not in directory /usr/sbin/ldconfig:/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 is not a symbolic link ROOT/image-template/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: cd : ROOT/image-template/usr/bin :Not a directory ROOT/image-template/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: ./collage: No such file or directory mv: cannot stat 'ROOT/image-template/usr/sbin/busybox.anaconda':No such file or directory mv: cannot stat /usr/bin/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: cd: ROOT/image-template/usr/bin : No such file or directory ARCH=i386 BASH=/bin/bash BASH_ENV=/root/.bashrc BASH_VERSION='2.05a.0(1)-release' DIRSTACK=() EUID=0 GROUPS=() HISTSIZE=1000 HOME=/ROOT HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain HOSTTYPE=i686 IFS=$'\t\n' ........ ...... ........ Scrubbing trees... ROOT/RedHatinstimage mv :cannot stat ' ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/sbin/anaconda':No such file or directory /usr/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 is not a sysmbolic link mv: cannot stat /ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/sbin/busybox.anaconda': No such file or directory ARCH=i386 BASH=/bin/bash BASH_ENV=/root/.bashrc BASH_VERSION='2.05a.0(1)-release' DIRSTACK=() EUID=0 GROUPS=() HISTSIZE=1000 HOME=/ROOT ..... .... .... Scrubbing trees... Compressing .mo files in stage2 images..... Patching python library... Removing unused python files in hdimage..../usr/sbin/chroot: cannot execute /usr/bin/anaconda:Not a directory find : /usr/lib/anaconda: No such file or directory done ln: creating symbolic link 'ROOT/instimage/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled' to '/tmp' : No such file or directory Cleaning ramdisk instal images... ROOT/buildinstall.tree.1020/upd-instroot: ROOT/RedHat/instimage/etc/gtk/gtkrc: No such file or directory Getting package order... Traceback (innermost last): File "ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder" ,line 10 ,in ? import whiteout Import Error: No module named whiteout ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/lang-table doesn't exist _______________________________________________________________________________ I am certainly sure that hdlist are correct and the problem lies at this step only.. Thanx for solving my problem and giving suggestions in advance. Neeraj. _________________________________________________________________ Redefine team work. Discover your true potential. http://www.microsoft.com/india/office/experience/ With the MS product suite.

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Suggestions invited for building installer images .
by neeraj pant 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

hi everybody, thru this medium i am presenting my problem in building installer images in customisation of redhat 7.3 version of linux. In my earlier efforts to bring up my problem i was unable to describe the thing exactly. Please be patient to read this one out... _______________________________________________________________________________ when i typed the command: /usr/bin/anaconda-runtime/buildinstall --comp dist-7.3 --pkgorder /redhat/pkgorder.txt --version 7.3 /redhat/i386 i got the following results which erased my earlier install images. _______________________________________________________________________________ Building images.. Assembling package list.. Expanding packages... retrieving timezones... cat : ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/lang-table* :No such file or directory Running mkfontdir.. /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir:failed to create directory in ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* rm: cannot remove 'ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir' :No such fle or directory Scrubbing trees.. ROOT/imge-template ln : creating symbolic link 'ROOTimage-template/usr/bin/raidstart' to '../lib/anaconda/raidstart-stub':No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin/raidstop'' to '../lib/anaconda/raidstop-stub':No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin/losetup' to '../lib/anaconda/losetup-stub':No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin/pump' to '../lib/anaconda/pump-stub':No such file or directory mv: cannot stat 'ROOT/image-template/usr/sbin/anaconda': No such file or directory /bin/cpio: 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin' exists but is not in directory /bin/cpio: 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin/../ash' exists but is not in directory /bin/cpio: 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin' exists but is not in directory /bin/cpio: 'ROOT/image-template/usr/bin/../sh' exists but is not in directory /usr/sbin/ldconfig:/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 is not a symbolic link ROOT/image-template/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: cd : ROOT/image-template/usr/bin :Not a directory ROOT/image-template/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: ./collage: No such file or directory mv: cannot stat 'ROOT/image-template/usr/sbin/busybox.anaconda':No such file or directory mv: cannot stat /usr/bin/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: cd: ROOT/image-template/usr/bin : No such file or directory ARCH=i386 BASH=/bin/bash BASH_ENV=/root/.bashrc BASH_VERSION='2.05a.0(1)-release' DIRSTACK=() EUID=0 GROUPS=() HISTSIZE=1000 HOME=/ROOT HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain HOSTTYPE=i686 IFS=$'\t\n' ........ ...... ........ Scrubbing trees... ROOT/RedHatinstimage mv :cannot stat ' ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/sbin/anaconda':No such file or directory /usr/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 is not a sysmbolic link mv: cannot stat /ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/sbin/busybox.anaconda': No such file or directory ARCH=i386 BASH=/bin/bash BASH_ENV=/root/.bashrc BASH_VERSION='2.05a.0(1)-release' DIRSTACK=() EUID=0 GROUPS=() HISTSIZE=1000 HOME=/ROOT ..... .... .... Scrubbing trees... Compressing .mo files in stage2 images..... Patching python library... Removing unused python files in hdimage..../usr/sbin/chroot: cannot execute /usr/bin/anaconda:Not a directory find : /usr/lib/anaconda: No such file or directory done ln: creating symbolic link 'ROOT/instimage/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled' to '/tmp' : No such file or directory Cleaning ramdisk instal images... ROOT/buildinstall.tree.1020/upd-instroot: ROOT/RedHat/instimage/etc/gtk/gtkrc: No such file or directory Getting package order... Traceback (innermost last): File "ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder" ,line 10 ,in ? import whiteout Import Error: No module named whiteout ROOT/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/lang-table doesn't exist _______________________________________________________________________________ I am certainly sure that hdlist are correct and the problem lies at this step only.. Thanx for solving my problem and giving suggestions in advance. Neeraj. _________________________________________________________________ The real power of teamwork. Experience it in real time. http://www.microsoft.com/india/office/experience/ Experience MS Office System.

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