Calling yum from within a kickstart file in fc6pre

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 17:35 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> For FC <= 5, I could call yum during the
> kickstart installation from the %post section.
> 
> When I do this in FC6-pre, I get the following error:
> 
> /usr/bin/yum -y install nautilus-open-terminal
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>      yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 85, in main
>      base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 192, in getOptionsConfig
>      errorlevel=opts.errorlevel)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 123, in 
> doConfigSetup
>      self.doLoggingSetup(startupconf.debuglevel, startupconf.errorlevel)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 147, in 
> doLoggingSetup
>      logginglevels.doLoggingSetup(debuglevel, errorlevel)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/logginglevels.py", line 
> 116, in doLoggingSetup
>      syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(log_dev)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 601, in __init__
>      self._connect_unixsocket(address)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 617, in 
> _connect_unixsocket
>      self.socket.connect(address)
>    File "<string>", line 1, in connect
> socket.error: (111, 'Connection refused')
> Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
>      func(*targs, **kargs)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/__init__.py", line 1333, in shutdown
>      h.close()
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 642, in close
>      if self.unixsocket:
> AttributeError: SysLogHandler instance has no attribute 'unixsocket'
> Error in sys.exitfunc:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
>      func(*targs, **kargs)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/__init__.py", line 1333, in shutdown
>      h.close()
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 642, in close
>      if self.unixsocket:
> AttributeError: SysLogHandler instance has no attribute 'unixsocket'
> 
> I've repeated it several times, always the same error.
> 
> It works fine after installation, no "connection refused".
> 
Just a thought.  
Is the network interface up, fully configured, and active when you are
trying to run yum?  Is DNS functional so yum can reach the repos?

> - or is there a smarter way of doing this?
> 

Maybe it should be set to run in firstboot? or at first login by root?

> Mogens
> 
> -- 
> Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department
> Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark
> Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08
> Email: mk at crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk
>