May 2006 - Anaconda-devel - Fedora mailing-lists

ignoring GPT partitions
by Adam Miller 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, I'm working on a completely automated install of FC4x86_64 on a AMD Opteron 175 box with 16x Western Digital 400GB drives. The OS is being installed on a 20GB partition, and the rest of the 5TB are on a single GPT partition. The GPT partition will house data that I do not want destroyed when installing the OS. Anaconda will warn, however, that this partition is GPT. I wish to ignore this fact in the install, but I don't know how to add in the kickstart to ignore this drive. Any suggestions? Cheers, Adam Miller UWM

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How loader2 create ide/scsi device node file?
by Levin Du 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I'm reading anaconda source files these days. I extract initrd.img from FC5, and notice that '/dev' in initrd.img is empty. I find that init will create some basic devices such as console, ttys, fb etc, but no device files of hard disks or floppy. And I look into loader2. Loader2 will load all the require modules. Yet I cannot find code creating those block device files. Would anyone kindly point it out for me? Best reguards, Levin

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Media weirdness
by Philip Prindeville 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Are there any known issues with Kickstart on FC5? I have a DVD-RW that I burned that passes media checking both on the source and target machines (I use the checkisomd5 command on the raw device, and then "linux mediacheck" again on the target machine). Yet when I try to install from it, I sometimes get a message about "The package mgetty-... cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file or perhaps a corrupt package. yada yada" Oddly, if I reboot and try again, it may fail on the same package, or it may fail on another. Sometimes reburning the DVD fixes the issue. Some times it doesn't. Seems to be a non-deterministic. And if I click on "Retry" on the error dialog pop-up, I get an exception: timer.stop() in getRPMFilename() in image.py.... AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'stop' (noting also that getRPMFilename() has "None" as the 3rd parameter in the caller. Does any of this sound familiar? -Philip

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Re: Customize Anaconda Installer
by Alain TAUCH 31 May '06

31 May '06

On Wed, 31 May 2006 11:18:41 -0500 Mario Gamboa [Mario] wrote: Mario> edit you comps.xml for remove the option of workstation of anaconda Mario> installer Hi mario. you misread the thread, I'm not the one looking for how to do this and you only replied to me (not to the list) so indraveni won't be able to see your message. Moreover I think we're not talking about the same things: - the server/worstation installation type (.py files) - the server/workstation package groups and their content (comps.xml) -- Alain

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Re: Customize Anaconda Installer
by Alain TAUCH 31 May '06

31 May '06

On Wed, 31 May 2006 13:11:46 +0100 (BST) Indraveni wrote: |> we have done that but no use.. Still they are being displayed. If they are still displayed, you missed something when repackaging your distro with your new anaconda. You'll need to provide more details. |> At the same time in the Additional Languages Support Screen also |> I want to remove the existing once and add our languages into it. |> |> How can I do this??? I'm sure you'll be able to find this in the ML archives. And please, reply to the list ;-) -- Alain |> Alain TAUCH <anaconda(a)maisondubonheur.com> wrote: On Wed, 31 May 2006 11:53:16 +0100 (BST) |> Indraveni wrote: |> |> [...] |> |> we are working for a distro for which we are using anaconda Installer. |> |> I want to remove the Workstation and Server options from the Install |> |> Type Screen that appears duing installation since we are not having |> |> the Workstation and server version of Our OS. |> |> |> |> For this what should i do.. Can anyone tell me where the coding of |> |> anaconda installer should be modified. |> |> IIRC you only need to remove the server.py and workstation.py files |> in the installclasses/ folder. |>

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Customizing Anaconda Installer
by Indraveni 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi, we are working for a distro for which we are using anaconda Installer. I want to remove the Workstation and Server options from the Install Type Screen that appears duing installation since we are not having the Workstation and server version of Our OS. Also in the Additional Language Support Screen I dont want the existing ones but I want to add new languages which Our Os supports i.e Indian Languages.. For this what should i do.. Can anyone tell me where the coding of anaconda installer should be modified. Any help will be apprecaited. Thankyou Indraveni --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now

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Customize Anaconda Installer
by Indraveni 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi, we are working for a distro for which we are using anaconda Installer. I want to remove the Workstation and Server options from the Install Type Screen that appears duing installation since we are not having the Workstation and server version of Our OS. For this what should i do.. Can anyone tell me where the coding of anaconda installer should be modified. Any help will be apprecaited. Thankyou Indraveni --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now

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by maysam shakouri 31 May '06

31 May '06

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Whether /mnt/source should be visible chroot'd or not
by Philip Prindeville 30 May '06

30 May '06

I had filed the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192332 because, as a newbie, I thought the behavior of Anaconda was counter-intuitive and found myself doing something that must have been done by a good number of others, and wondered why it wasn't the default behavior (doing it wouldn't break anything expecting the backwards compatible behavior). But the bug was closed with the following comment: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/process_bug.cgi#c2 > Doing this breaks expectations of people -- /mnt/source isn't going to exist on > the real system. Also, it's not going to work with non-CD install methods. which I didn't understand, and seemed to be counter to most expectations. So I wanted to ask, am I really alone here in left field? Because at least one other posting (earlier today) on Kickstart-list seemed to imply that this is a fairly common expectation/misunderstanding. Anyone else have feelings on this issue either way? What am I missing? -Philip

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Adding a kernel driver to RHEL4 initrd.img & interactions with Anaconda loader
by Shawn Starr 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone can point me to some good documentation explaining how to add a kernel driver into the initrd.img. When I tried to add it, Anaconda would prompt me that It couldn't find the hardware (in this case an updated e1000 driver). The driver was listed in the dialog and I could Manually load it by selecting it. However, Anaconda refuses to proceed further to download the Stage 2 ramdisk. When adding the driver to the initrd.img I Merged the pcitable, pci.ids, modinfo from the original driver. That contains newer PCI IDs for the e1000. The problem is it seems to think I want another driver disk? Anyone know? Thanks, Shawn.

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Prompting for customization
by Philip Prindeville 28 May '06

28 May '06

I was wondering what would be involved in adding steps to a build DVD where additional per-user customization is done. Since the company does a poor job of tracking which PC's (and their associated MAC addresses) are given out to which users (new hires especially), it's hard to discover (via LDAP queries, for instance) what user name owns a PC, what resources should be preconfigured on it (such as SMB share volumes, etc). So I was thinking of adding a step where a pop-up (or series of pop-ups) prompts the user for things like: * his AD domain; * his AD username (different from his UNIX name); * his AD password; * his desired MS networking shares; * his Wifi SSIDs and associated Radius information etc, etc. Is there an easy way to do this? Are there any examples out there of someone doing this? Would it be something that could be easily added into Anaconda via script-extensions? -Philip

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Simplifying ks.cfg files
by Philip Prindeville 26 May '06

26 May '06

Here's a random musing... (I have a lot of these.) Rather than using --ondrive= and --drive= for the clearpart and part commands in the ks.cfg file, why not have a single global command like "usedrive sda" or whatever? That way, you don't have to worry about making an incomplete edit or having an inconsistent configuration that sets the MBR on one drive, but formats partitions on another, etc. etc. -Philip

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Buildstamps do not match
by Matt Paine 25 May '06

25 May '06

Hi everyone. Basically I've been back at it, trying to do a buildinstall, and with every progress I make I continue to get the same error when the CD boots - no cd was found that matches your boot media....... I've hacked into the source for anaconda and filled it up with some debug outputs while getting to know my way around a little bit, and I've found out where its going wrong. The buildstamps do not match. I have one buildstamp (/.buildstamp) that is stamped 200605251433.i386 and another one (/mnt/runtime/.buildstamp) that is stamped 200603142328.i386. That causes verifyStamp (found in loader2/method.c) to fail, causeing the message. Now I know the cause, how do I find the solution? I see that buildinstall.py calls mk-stamp, which puts the current date/time/arch into /tmp/makebootdisk.dir.$$/.buildstamp, which appears to be compiled into the initrd.img on the cdrom (/isolinux/initrd.img). So the question is where is it getting the 200603 build stamp (original fedora 5 build is my guess). And why doesn't the buildinstall process use the same buildstamps for each place. I could hack mk-images to hard code the 200603 stamp, but I would prefer it to stamp it to the correct build date/time. Any information would be fantastic. Thankyou Matt.

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Anaconda error
by Fabricio Lopes de Souza 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi , Im getting some error in package selection : [error] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1218, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 512, in run rc = apply(win, (self.screen, ) + args) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/grpselect_text.py", line 148, in __call__ self.__deselectPackage(grp, pkg) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/grpselect_text.py", line 52, in __deselectPackage except mdErrors.PackageSackError: NameError: global name 'mdErrors' is not defined [/error] i have the anacdump.txt file , if is needed to debug , tell me and i atach to email ! and another question , im editing the fedora 5 instalation . but i only edit the comps.xml and do a createrepo . Am i missing anything ? [sorry bad english ;]

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are driver disks broken in FC5?
by Dan Carpenter 24 May '06

24 May '06

Has anyone got a driver disk to work in FC5? I created a driver disk, it detected and loaded fine for the install but after the install it wasn't in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/. I looked through the source. The code to copy drivers to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/ is in copyExtraModules which is only used by doPostInstall in packages.py. As far as I can tell from looking at the source this code is never called. If you do a `grep packages . -R | grep import` you can see which parts of packages.py are used and it's not there. Of course, if anyone had successfully created a driver disk for FC5 then I must be doing something wrong. :) regards, dan carpenter

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Anaconda Font Selection Problem
by Ali Majdzadeh 22 May '06

22 May '06

Hi Everybody I have added Persian fonts to stage2.img. How can I configure anaconda to use these newly installed fonts? (I want to view Persian texts without any problem.) Regards Ali

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Anaconda Version In Redhat Enterprise Linux 4
by Ali Majdzadeh 22 May '06

22 May '06

Hi EveryBody I have compiled anaconda-10.2.1.5. Is there anyway to use this version instead of RHEL 4's anaconda? What version of anaconda is used in RHEL 4? Best Regards Ali

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firewall icmp
by Alexandre CONRAD 20 May '06

20 May '06

Hello, how can I setup the kickstart to enable firewall and allow ICMP (pings, traceroutes) from outside without having to do any post configuration ? Thank you. Regards, -- Alexandre CONRAD - TLV Research & Development tel : +33 1 30 80 55 05 fax : +33 1 30 80 55 06 6, rue de la plaine 78860 - SAINT NOM LA BRETECHE FRANCE

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Remounting CD/DVD when running %post?
by Philip Prindeville 18 May '06

18 May '06

Ok, going back and looking at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=129091 this patch works pretty well for me, except... one small point. Just before PostInstall() gets run, I'm wondering if we shouldn't unmount /mnt/source and remount it as /mnt/sysimage/mnt/source... then create a link as: ln -s /mnt/sysimage/mnt/source /mnt/ so that both chroot'd and non-chroot'd %post scripts can see /mnt/source correctly? Does that seem reasonable? I'm not a Python guru (Perl is my preferred perversion), so if anyone has a patch for me to try out, I'd be happy to oblige them. Thanks, -Philip

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Re: Problem Testing Anaconda
by Ali Majdzadeh 17 May '06

17 May '06

> > Hi David > Thanks for your clarifying. > I am going to test the issue using Fedoras Core 5. > > Ragards > Ali > > > On 5/15/06, David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > > > Ah, sorry about that. Rawhide is technically called Fedora Development > > (I guess). It's the active development tree for the next release of > > Fedora Core. Trees are updated daily. More info: > > > > I would point you at a URL on fedoraproject.org, but I can't find > > anything in that wiki at the moment. > > > > But understand that rawhide is not a release, it's just an ongoing tree > > that changes daily. If you want to jump in to that world, be sure to > > get on fedora-test-list and/or fedora-devel-list. > > > > > > Ali Majdzadeh wrote: > > > Hi David > > > Sorry, but I do not know the meaning of rawhide. Would please explain > > it > > > more? > > > > > > Regards > > > Ali > > > > > > On 5/15/06, David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > > >It depends on what your goal is. It's going to be unpleasant to work > > on > > > >rawhide anaconda on RHEL4, so if you want to do that, you should > > > >consider using rawhide. > > > > > > > >You can check out the RHEL4 branch of anaconda from CVS as > > well. It's > > > >named 'rhel4-branch'. > > > > > > > >Ali Majdzadeh wrote: > > > >> Hi David > > > >> Thanks for your attention > > > >> I am using Redhat Enterprise Linux 4. Do you think I should try > > Fedora > > > >Core > > > >> 5? > > > >> > > > >> Best Regards > > > >> Ali > > > >> > > > >> On 5/15/06, David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > > >> > > > > >> >Ali Majdzadeh wrote: > > > >> >> Hi Again Steven > > > >> >> I downloaded the CVS version of Anaconda, but the compilation > > fails > > > >with > > > >> >the > > > >> >> following errors: > > > >> >> > > > >> >> ... > > > >> >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/Tools/anaconda/isys/gzlib' > > > >> >> cc -c -O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -Wall > > -Werror > > > >> >> -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE=1 > > > >> >> -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE=1 -DUSESELINUX=1 -I/usr/include/python2.3 > > -I.. > > > >> >> -DHAVE_NFS -fPIC -o isys.lo isys.c > > > >> >> In file included from net.h:5, > > > >> >> from isys.c:55: > > > >> >> /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:18: error: syntax error before > > "u16" > > > >> >> /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:20: error: syntax error before > > "port" > > > >> >> /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:21: error: syntax error before > > > >> >"phy_address" > > > >> >> /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:22: error: syntax error before > > > >> >"transceiver" > > > >> >> /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:23: error: syntax error before > > "autoneg" > > > >> >> /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:27: error: syntax error before '}' > > token > > > >> >> /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:50: error: syntax error before "u8" > > > >> >> /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:64: error: syntax error before "u8" > > > > > >> >> /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:73: error: syntax error before "u8" > > > >> >> make[1]: *** [isys.lo] Error 1 > > > >> >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/Tools/anaconda/isys' > > > >> >> make: *** [subdirs] Error 1 > > > >> >> > > > >> >> Any ideas? > > > >> > > > > >> >Check the modest BuildRequires line in anaconda.spec and make sure > > you > > > >> >have all the development things installed. > > > >> > > > > >> >-- > > > >> >David Cantrell > > > >> >Red Hat / Westford, MA > > > >> > > > > > > > > >-- > > > >David Cantrell > > > >Red Hat / Westford, MA > > > > > > > > -- > > David Cantrell > > Red Hat / Westford, MA > > > >

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Re: Regarding "Confirm Install" box not showing up
by C.C. Chakkaradeep 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi Steven and all, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven Augart" <saugart(a)mazunetworks.com> > To: "C.C. Chakkaradeep" <chakkaradeepcc(a)linuxmail.org> > Subject: Re: Regarding "Confirm Install" box not showing up > Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 08:57:00 -0400 > > > > Which version of Anaconda are you running? > Should I assume that you're installing Fedora Core 5? FC 4? Red > Hat 9? Something else? > am using Fedora Core 3 and anaconda version is 10.1 . I have these rpms installed, anaconda-help-10.1.0-1 anaconda-runtime-10.1.0.2-1 busybox-anaconda-1.00.rc1-5 anaconda-10.1.0.2-1 I have successfully customized the RPMs and Installation, except this "Confirm Install" dialog not popping up. > Are you using the stock Anaconda provided with your linux distro on > the installation disk? (I assume so.) Yeah, these rpms are direct from the FC3 CDs. > > I hope we can be helpful. > Thank you. Regards, C.C.Chakkaradeep -- _______________________________________________ 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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PATCH: Detecting grub failure
by Ragnar Kjørstad 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi The attached patch adds checking for the exitcode from grub. The old code silently ignored failures from grub, which makes debugging more difficult. --- python/bootloader.py (revision 47239) +++ python/bootloader.py (working copy) @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ import os +import sys from iutil import getArch, getDiskPart, execWithRedirect, devify import isys import raid @@ -274,13 +275,16 @@ for cmd in cmds: os.write(p[1], cmd + '\n') os.close(p[1]) - execWithRedirect(grubbin, + status = execWithRedirect(grubbin, [ "grub", "--batch", "--no-floppy", "--device-map=/boot/grub/device.map" ], stdin = p[0], stdout = "/dev/tty5", stderr = "/dev/tty5", root = instRoot) os.close(p[0]) + if status: + log("Grub failed with exitcode %d" % status) + sys.exit(0) return -- Ragnar Kjørstad Software Engineer Scali - http://www.scali.com Scaling the Linux Datacenter

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RE: Detecting network failure
by Lazarev, Roman 16 May '06

16 May '06

Steve, I have automated generation of the bootdisk.img, in a way where it takes params from CGI, builds new ks.cfg based on params, and then stuffs it into initrd (rdstuff). It's the attached to the system through virtual media. The process takes about 1 minute to the server booting floppy, but it's too much time. I was just testing a new piece of equipment that came in and the server has 4 network ifaces and has feeds to 3 subnets. I didn't know which iface was eth0 which eth3 I also didn't know what subnet is associated with which nic. Yes it does sound strange but it does happen. Anyways, I have co-workers that are using my build and sometimes they can't proceed because they can't retrieve the netstg2 image and all that. So it always comes back to me ;) Some time ago I was speaking to an Intel hardware vendor about introducing a check-net type of a thing from their remote management card. Now that the industry is strongly considering SMASH CLP, this would be akin to Sun's "watch-net"... So... I was wondering if there could be a simple thing in anaconda that's basically - ethtool/mii-tool/tcpdump combo - ok, are we on the subnet? Right, can we ping the remote server? [if not, display in English - dude, I'm not sensing the connection, link down ] - right, can we get to it on port (21, 80, else?) [ if not, dude, your connection is live and good, yes I'm on the network, but the server is down ] right, is the image available [ no there's not even a build tree there, pointing to the right directory ? ] , right - build. Instead there's a "reverse DNS lookup 5 second"... Well that's cryptic ;) Thanks, Roman Lazarev Fidelity Investment Management Technology 245 Summer Street V2E Boston, MA 02210 (617) 563-1173 -----Original Message----- From: Steven Augart [mailto:saugart@mazunetworks.com] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 6:40 PM To: Lazarev, Roman Cc: anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Re: Detecting network failure Lazarev, Roman wrote: > It also is time consuming to regenerate images every time I want to > test another interface. This comment is intriguing. What do you mean by "regenerate images every time I want to test another interface" ? Do you mean that you're testing different kinds of network interfaces, or is there something else going on here? > Is it possible/is there already a stub that tests network connectivity > and says - yes, I'm able to communicate - in plain English language ;) I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "a stub". Are you hacking on Anaconda and adding features to the Python components? My experience with Anaconda guts is almost entirely with the C loader stage. --Steven Augart

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Detecting network failure
by Lazarev, Roman 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hi! I'm messing around with the new build here for RHEL4 and bumping into a problem - a simple one too - problems with network connectivity. Every time it happens I have to wait for anaconda to time out trying to get images from the network. It also is time consuming to regenerate images every time I want to test another interface. Is it possible/is there already a stub that tests network connectivity and says - yes, I'm able to communicate - in plain English language ;) Thanks a bunch!!! Roman Lazarev Fidelity Investment Management Technology 245 Summer Street V2E Boston, MA 02210 (617) 563-1173

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Failed to loading mousedev module
by Philip Prindeville 15 May '06

15 May '06

Is this code deprecated, or what exactly? From what I can tell, the mouse command has gone away, right? So why does this message always appear, or what can one do to fix it? At the very least, can we fix the syntax on the message? Should I file a bug? Thanks, -Philip

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