install report 2006-07-25 - mixed results

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

The install was successful, anaconda seems in good shape at this time.

The initial reboot paniced trying to kill init!  Adding selinux=0 to the boot
line let it continue.

Firstboot came up (without RHGB) and did not fail the soundcard module.
However, it still hangs waiting on a subprocess that goes defunct; apparently
it isn't getting a signal from the child process.  Even killing the X server
it's running on doesn't cure the hang.  I had to ssh in from another machine
to kill the firstboot process.

Things are beginning to shape up again.

Incidentally, system-config-display fails with an import error for "_gtk"
and requires a X server kill to escape from the hung window.

--Wolfe

[Mike A. Harris]

G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
>  The install was successful, anaconda seems in good shape at this
> time.
>  
>  The initial reboot paniced trying to kill init!  Adding selinux=0 to the boot
>  line let it continue.
>  
>  Firstboot came up (without RHGB) and did not fail the soundcard module.
>  However, it still hangs waiting on a subprocess that goes defunct; apparently
>  it isn't getting a signal from the child process.  Even killing the X server
>  it's running on doesn't cure the hang.  I had to ssh in from another machine
>  to kill the firstboot process.
>  
>  Things are beginning to shape up again.
>  
>  Incidentally, system-config-display fails with an import error for "_gtk"
>  and requires a X server kill to escape from the hung window. 
There is a bug reported against system-config-display for that for a
while now which you might want to CC yourself on.  Hopefully the package
maintainer will fix it soon.

-- 
Mike A. Harris  *  Open Source Advocate  *  http://mharris.ca
                       Proud Canadian.

[Mike Chambers]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 22:41 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
>  The install was successful, anaconda seems in good shape at this
> time. 
Yep, did one yesterday myself, although the fonts have some work.  Not
all too solid if you ask me.  Like some of the lettering was faded, or
the color shall I say.
>  
>  The initial reboot paniced trying to kill init!  Adding selinux=0 to the boot
>  line let it continue. 
Yep, had the same thing happen to me.

>  Firstboot came up (without RHGB) and did not fail the soundcard
> module.
>  However, it still hangs waiting on a subprocess that goes defunct; apparently
>  it isn't getting a signal from the child process.  Even killing the X server
>  it's running on doesn't cure the hang.  I had to ssh in from another machine
>  to kill the firstboot process. 
IIRC it worked for me, but I don't remember now.

>  Incidentally, system-config-display fails with an import error for
> "_gtk"
>  and requires a X server kill to escape from the hung window. 
Yep, ran into the same problem.

I also noticed that root doesn't get the same bash prompt as normal
user, also that yum.cron is no longer in /etc/crontab/daily/ dir.

This may also have been noticed, but during the install when trying to
add a repository, it would only let me add a http or ftp URL, not file
or for anything local.  At least not file:// in any case.

Thanks,

Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 03:28 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
>  I also noticed that root doesn't get the same bash prompt as
> normal
>  user, also that yum.cron is no longer in /etc/crontab/daily/ dir. 
yum-updatesd replaces the cron job

>  This may also have been noticed, but during the install when trying
> to
>  add a repository, it would only let me add a http or ftp URL, not file
>  or for anything local.  At least not file:// in any case. 
This is somewhat intentional right now as what file location do you have
mounted that you're interested in?  I'm not against adding it, I just
want to better understand the value first

Jeremy

[Mike Chambers]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 10:19 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>  On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 03:28 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: 
>  > This may also have been noticed, but during the install when
> trying to
>  > add a repository, it would only let me add a http or ftp URL, not file
>  > or for anything local.  At least not file:// in any case.
>  
>  This is somewhat intentional right now as what file location do you have
>  mounted that you're interested in?  I'm not against adding it, I just
>  want to better understand the value first 
My /home/nfs/download/linux/whatever dir's is it.  dir's=freshrpms,
extras, whichever subdir/repository that I want to do.  I mirror 2-3 of
them so I don't have to d/l them.

Mainly to do local mirrored repositories, via setup NFS.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not getting any!"

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:25, Mike Chambers wrote:
>  My /home/nfs/download/linux/whatever dir's is it.
>  dir's=freshrpms,
>  extras, whichever subdir/repository that I want to do.  I mirror 2-3 of
>  them so I don't have to d/l them.
>
>  Mainly to do local mirrored repositories, via setup NFS. 
Adding an NFS repo makes sense.  A file:// probably not as much (but I could 
be wrong).

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora

install report 2006-07-25 - file:// repo

[David Timms]

Jesse Keating wrote:
>  On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:25, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > My /home/nfs/download/linux/whatever dir's is it.  dir's=freshrpms,
> > extras, whichever subdir/repository that I want to do.  I mirror 2-3 of
> > them so I don't have to d/l them.
> >
> > Mainly to do local mirrored repositories, via setup NFS.
>  
>  Adding an NFS repo makes sense.  A file:// probably not as much (but I could 
>  be wrong). 
A file repo would be good when I'm not reformatting all drives in
the 
machine {normal} as I do a new install to the / folder, leaving my 
existing data and repo's intact. Also good in a re-install situation, so 
that I don't need to re-download the packages. Another situation that 
file:// urls would be useful - other types of removable media 
{cd/dvd/usb flash/usb hdd} that get inserted / mounted.

DaveT.