Anaconda-devel December 2004

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Customizing Fedora Core
by bhaskar 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Dear ALL, After Customization of Fedora Core-3 i have built new Fedora Core-3 boot CD.I am able to install if select only text based installation. if select any other package selection installation is excited abnormally. Installation is crashing after "Preparing RPM transaction..." this screen. regards bhaskar

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install of RPM just stuck
by Vijay V. Swami 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Hello all, have a strange problem here. Install is based off of RH9.0, only change to the tree is a new kernel. Ran genhdlist, pkgorder, buildinstall, etc and have generated everything properly. Now I put the apprpriate things on a CD to create a kickstart environment. Everything works well, boots into ISOLINUX, gets the KS config off an http server, and begins doing an http install. The problem is while its installing RPMs it will suddenly installing. Its not frozen, I can switch to other virtual terminals, and even interact with the system via VT2 (bash prompt), so this is what is puzzling. Is there anyway to get some debug output out of anaconda for instances like this? Nothing much has changed, I don't understand why it just stops installing. The specspo is hung at 98%, and its pretty repeatable. The specspo RPM itself is fine, I have installed it manually off my repository, so its certainly not corrupt. Any insights? Thanks. /vijay

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DHCP client in anaconda
by Hao Luo 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hi, I have being devoted to investigating linux network installation via UUID(Universal Unique Identifier), unique for each IBM xSeries server. As I know, syslinux 2.07 has provided support of sending a dhcp request containing UUID infomation, which can be recogonized by dhcpd3.0. Do you have any idea of how to make dhcp client in anaconda send request with additional UUID infomation. [dhcpd.conf] authoritative; ddns-update-style none; option client-guid code 97 = { unsigned integer 8, string }; shared-network eth0 { subnet 172.20.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 { filename "/pxelinux.0"; next-server 172.20.3.2; default-lease-time -1; class "l2" { match if substring(option client-guid,1,16) = c0:2f:86:a1:0a:b4:4a:12:b8:23:b0:84:18:17:91:cb; } pool { allow members of "l2"; option host-name "l2"; option root-path "/RHEL3/QU3"; range 172.20.3.25; } } #172.20.0.0/255.255.0.0 subnet_end# } #eth0 network_end# Yours Sincerely, Luo Hao IBM China Software Development Laboratory Tel:86-10-82782244-3420 Mail:luohao@cn.ibm.com Address: North Area, 8/F, Ying Chuang Building No.1, East Road, Shangdi, Haidian District Beijing 100085, PRC

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Re: Fedora Core 3 Customized installer problem .. Solved
by Greg Morgan 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Jerry Garcia wrote: > Thank you very much for your help. A friend of mine just discovered that there is no problem on customized build of FC3 but rather the computer i'm using right now doesn't support the LVM's. This can be by passed by installing the newly build customized FC3 by manually deleting the partitions on the hard disk. > > Respectfully yours, > > Jerry Garcia > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: Greg Morgan <drkludge(a)cox.net> > Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:31:02 -0700 > > >>Jerry Garcia wrote: >> >>>Sir, >>> I have tried installing it in two different computers with the assurance that the hard drives of both computers are working. But still thesame problem appears. >>> Thank you. >> >>Jerry, sorry I couldn't get back to your question sooner. In the future, >>you'd want to reply to the list too. Someone else may be able to help. >> >>Anyhow, I googled on this part of the error message with quotes >>"lvcreate failed for %s". I found only four links. Two are copied >>below. What kind of platform are you trying to run this on? The >>buzilla link concerns 64 bit platforms possibly being a factor with this >>message. The other link is based on a VMWare install. If you are >>running your customized installer on VMWare, then try it on a PC that is >>not using it. If you have created your install on a VMWare machine, >>then try the build process on one without, if you are able to do so. >>Finally, there might have been a failure during the build process. It >>could even be a bad CD. Try performing a media check. Here are the links. >>http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=9757 >>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105343 >> >>I hope this gives you a few more ideas. >> >>Greg >> >> >>>Respectfully yours, >>> >>>Jerry Garcia >>> >>>---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >>>From: Greg Morgan <drkludge(a)cox.net> >>>Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 03:13:31 -0700 >>> >>> >>> >>>>Jerry Garcia wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Sir/Madame: >>>>>Good Afternoon!! >>>>>Please help me on the problem I'm stuck into right now, I'm customizing the Fedora Core 3 installer and was able to customized most of it. But at a point where the packages are to be installed this error occurs on my monitor: >>>>> >>>>>Tracebak (most recent call last); >>>> >>>><snip> >>>> >>>>>File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py" , line 2051, in setupDevice >>>>> raise SystemError, "lvcreate failed for %s" %(self.name,) >>>>> >>>>>SystemError: lvcreate failed for LogVol00 >>>> >>>>So is your hard disk ok? The Logical Volume Manager, LVM cannot create >>>>your install location on your hard drive. If your hard drive is ok, >>>>then you may want to look here for why your customization failed. >>>> >>>>Greg >>>> >> >>

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installation excited abnormally
by bhaskar 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Dear ALL, I Built new boot CD from FC3.ALL Installation screens till "Preparing RPM transaction..." are howing fine. after this screen giving error that "installation excited abnormally" regards bhaskar

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Re: Fedora Core 3 Customized installer problem ..
by Greg Morgan 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Jerry Garcia wrote: > Sir, > I have tried installing it in two different computers with the assurance that the hard drives of both computers are working. But still thesame problem appears. > Thank you. Jerry, sorry I couldn't get back to your question sooner. In the future, you'd want to reply to the list too. Someone else may be able to help. Anyhow, I googled on this part of the error message with quotes "lvcreate failed for %s". I found only four links. Two are copied below. What kind of platform are you trying to run this on? The buzilla link concerns 64 bit platforms possibly being a factor with this message. The other link is based on a VMWare install. If you are running your customized installer on VMWare, then try it on a PC that is not using it. If you have created your install on a VMWare machine, then try the build process on one without, if you are able to do so. Finally, there might have been a failure during the build process. It could even be a bad CD. Try performing a media check. Here are the links. http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=9757 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105343 I hope this gives you a few more ideas. Greg > > Respectfully yours, > > Jerry Garcia > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: Greg Morgan <drkludge(a)cox.net> > Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 03:13:31 -0700 > > >>Jerry Garcia wrote: >> >>>Sir/Madame: >>> Good Afternoon!! >>> Please help me on the problem I'm stuck into right now, I'm customizing the Fedora Core 3 installer and was able to customized most of it. But at a point where the packages are to be installed this error occurs on my monitor: >>> >>>Tracebak (most recent call last); >> >><snip> >> >>> File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py" , line 2051, in setupDevice >>> raise SystemError, "lvcreate failed for %s" %(self.name,) >>> >>>SystemError: lvcreate failed for LogVol00 >> >>So is your hard disk ok? The Logical Volume Manager, LVM cannot create >>your install location on your hard drive. If your hard drive is ok, >>then you may want to look here for why your customization failed. >> >>Greg >>

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Fedora Core 3 Customized installer problem ..
by Jerry Garcia 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Sir/Madame: Good Afternoon!! Please help me on the problem I'm stuck into right now, I'm customizing the Fedora Core 3 installer and was able to customized most of it. But at a point where the packages are to be installed this error occurs on my monitor: Tracebak (most recent call last); File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py" line 1074, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 242, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File ""/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 789, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 171, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py" , line 239, in moveStep rc=apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py" , line 554, in turnOnFilesystems thefsset.createLogicalVolumes(instPath) File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 1432, in createLogicalVolumes entry.device.setupDevice(chroot) File "/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py" , line 2051, in setupDevice raise SystemError, "lvcreate failed for %s" %(self.name,) SystemError: lvcreate failed for LogVol00 Your help is highly appreciated. Thank you! Respectfully yours, Jerry Garcia

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python 2.4
by Matthew Miller 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

>From the changelog: * Sun Nov 07 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 10.2.0.0-1 - Switch to python 2.4 Does switch mean "now works with", or "now requires"? There's so many other things that look tasty in the changelog that I'm tempted to use some snapshot of the devel version of anaconda for our FC3-derived release. But perhaps I should be disuaded. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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A couple of days late - but a possible anaconda request
by Paul Pianta 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

If its not too late to request some features in the upcoming anaconda - I have something that has been 'bugging' me for a while. I am not even sure if it is Anaconda I should be requesting the change from (maybe more of a Disk Druid thing) When installing software RAID 1 over two hard drives - grub only gets installed on the first drive. It would be nice if grub was also installed to the second drive. As you might have guessed - it is not much fun if the first drive dies and even though you have a perfect mirror of your system - you can't boot into it! -- pAntZ Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes!

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--rootpath mode: anaconda does not completely skip the partinioning step
by Dimitrie O. Paun 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi folks, I've noticed that anaconda output this: * moving (1) to step partitionobjinit * pv is /dev/hda2 in vg VolGroup00, size is 80866181120 * vg VolGroup00, size is 80866181120 * lv is VolGroup00/LogVol00, size of 79255568384 * lv is VolGroup00/LogVol01, size of 1577058304 * running vgchange failed: 1280. disabling lvm * moving (1) to step partitiondone when invoked with the --rootpath option. Now, this Seems Wrong (TM) to me, it should *completely* skip this step, and not mess with such things at all. Right? -- Dimi.

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