Problems installing rawhide and reporting thereof

[Dax Kelson]

I understand the guts of Anaconda are changing to use yum and that it is
being actively worked on. Given that, are bug reports useful/wanted?

I tried installing Oct 25th rawhide on my Thinkpad T42p using the
images/boot.iso and a NFS shared rawhide tree.

I noticed two problems:

1. X failed to start (all three attempts) with the following error in
the various X.log files:

[snip]
Synaptics no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
Synaptics The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to be missing
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
(EE) Synaptics no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
(EE) Synaptics Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics"
No core pointer

Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
[snip]

I tried plugging in a usb mouse, but the same error still happened.

2. Skipping X and trying either a VNC or text mode install quickly
resulted in failure with a python traceback in yum code, I think it was
the "MDrepo" class or something close to that.

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Dax Kelson
Guru Labs

[Chris Lumens]

>  I understand the guts of Anaconda are changing to use yum and that it
> is
>  being actively worked on. Given that, are bug reports useful/wanted? 
Yes, bug reports are still useful as long as they're not about how group
selection is busted.  That's what is seeing the active work right now.

>  1. X failed to start (all three attempts) with the following error
> in
>  the various X.log files:
>
>  [snip]
>  Synaptics no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
>  Synaptics The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to be missing
>  Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
>  (EE) Synaptics no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
>  (EE) Synaptics Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
>  (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics"
>  No core pointer
>
>  Fatal server error:
>  failed to initialize core devices
>  [snip]
>
>  I tried plugging in a usb mouse, but the same error still happened. 
I fixed this on 10/14 and we did a build later that day, so it should be
fine.  On a test machine here, I see /dev/input/event{0-3} being
created.  After X fails, can you switch over to tty2 and check that
those exist?

>  2. Skipping X and trying either a VNC or text mode install quickly
>  resulted in failure with a python traceback in yum code, I think it was
>  the "MDrepo" class or something close to that. 
This should have been fixed within the past couple days, too.  Are you
sure you are using a 10/25 tree?

- Chris

[Dax Kelson]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 09:53 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:

>  > 1. X failed to start (all three attempts) with the following
> error in
>  > the various X.log files:
>  >
>  > [snip]
>  > Synaptics no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
>  > Synaptics The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to be missing 
>  I fixed this on 10/14 and we did a build later that day, so it should
> be
>  fine.  On a test machine here, I see /dev/input/event{0-3} being
>  created.  After X fails, can you switch over to tty2 and check that
>  those exist?
>  
>  > 2. Skipping X and trying either a VNC or text mode install quickly
>  > resulted in failure with a python traceback in yum code, I think it was
>  > the "MDrepo" class or something close to that.
>  
>  This should have been fixed within the past couple days, too.  Are you
>  sure you are using a 10/25 tree? 
The tree I was using was 10/24.

I'm rsyncing my tree right now and try again today.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs

[Deji Akingunola]

On 10/26/05, Chris Lumens <clumens(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  > 1. X failed to start (all three attempts) with the following
> error in
>  > the various X.log files:
>  >
>  > [snip]
>  > Synaptics no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
>  > Synaptics The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to be missing
>  > Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
>  > (EE) Synaptics no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
>  > (EE) Synaptics Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
>  > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics"
>  > No core pointer
>  >
>  > Fatal server error:
>  > failed to initialize core devices
>  > [snip]
>  >
>  > I tried plugging in a usb mouse, but the same error still happened.
>
>  I fixed this on 10/14 and we did a build later that day, so it should be
>  fine.  On a test machine here, I see /dev/input/event{0-3} being
>  created.  After X fails, can you switch over to tty2 and check that
>  those exist?
>  
 I still experienced the same error using a 10/25 tree.

Deji

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:37 -0400, Deji Akingunola wrote:
>  On 10/26/05, Chris Lumens <clumens(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > > 1. X failed to start (all three attempts) with the following error in
>  > > the various X.log files:
>  > >
>  > > [snip]
>  > > Synaptics no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
>  > > Synaptics The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to be missing
>  > > Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
>  > > (EE) Synaptics no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
>  > > (EE) Synaptics Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
>  > > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics"
>  > > No core pointer
>  > >
>  > > Fatal server error:
>  > > failed to initialize core devices
>  > > [snip]
>  > >
>  > > I tried plugging in a usb mouse, but the same error still happened.
>  >
>  > I fixed this on 10/14 and we did a build later that day, so it should be
>  > fine.  On a test machine here, I see /dev/input/event{0-3} being
>  > created.  After X fails, can you switch over to tty2 and check that
>  > those exist?
>  >
>   I still experienced the same error using a 10/25 tree. 
This is because Chris changed it so we make the device nodes after
starting X.  Less useful.  The beating will commence shortly ;-)

Jeremy

[Chris Lumens]

>  This is because Chris changed it so we make the device nodes after
>  starting X.  Less useful.  The beating will commence shortly ;-) 
Yeah, that's not the smartest thing I've done.  I'm sure there will be
more of those moments in the future.

Fixed.

- Chris

[Dax Kelson]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 01:24 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
>  I understand the guts of Anaconda are changing to use yum and that it
> is
>  being actively worked on. Given that, are bug reports useful/wanted?
>  
>  I tried installing Oct 25th rawhide on my Thinkpad T42p using the
>  images/boot.iso and a NFS shared rawhide tree.
>  
>  I noticed two problems:
>  
>  1. X failed to start (all three attempts) with the following error in
>  the various X.log files: 
>  2. Skipping X and trying either a VNC or text mode install quickly
>  resulted in failure with a python traceback in yum code, I think it was
>  the "MDrepo" class or something close to that. 
Last night I installed rawhide on my laptop with no issues. I can
confirm that both of these are now fixed.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs