[fedora-virt] ANNOUNCE: Rawhide virt repo for F11 users

[Ján ONDREJ (SAL)]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 11:35:02AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 18:57 +0200, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> > groupadd: GID 107 is not singular
> > useradd: unknown group qemu
> > Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package
> > 2:qemu-common-0.10.91-0.2.rc1.rc0.fc11.i586
> > varovanie: %post(qemu-common-2:0.10.91-0.2.rc1.rc0.fc11.i586) scriptlet
> > failed, exit status 6
> > 
> > Messages have been manually translated from slovak (my language) to english.
> > May be they are not correct.
> > 
> > OpenVPN is using gid 107 on my system.
> 
> Okay, it took me a while to figure out this one.
> 
> The first problem is that 'groupadd -r' doesn't know that the 100-200
> range is reserved for system accounts:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/515667
> 
> This sounds nasty, but it's actually not too bad - 'groupadd -r' should
> allocate gids from 499 downwards.
> 
> However, in rawhide and F-11 updates-testing, this was broken recently:

I don't use updates-testing. My system is Fedora 11 (stable updates only).

> You need to do something like:
> 
>   1) downgrade to shadow-utils-4.1.2-13.fc11

It's my version. There was no newer shadow-utils on my system.

My packages:
r[ondrejj at work ~]$ rpm -q qemu shadow-utils kernel-PAE
qemu-0.10.91-0.4.rc1.fc11.i586
shadow-utils-4.1.2-13.fc11.i586
kernel-PAE-2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i686
kernel-PAE-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i686

> > virtio booting is still not working. :(
> 
> This should be resolved now.

Still don't boot. Eating CPU, no action, I can only kill this virtual
machine.

[ondrejj at work ~]$ uname -a
Linux work.salstar.sk 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Jul 29
16:05:22 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

			SAL