August 2003 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Lib GL and php
by Tarjei Huse 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

Hi, after doing a nice and fine autoinstall, I get the following error when starting apache: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so into server: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I've done some searching for ligGL.so.1. It is installed, and in PHP it points here: ldd /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so |grep GL libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x412a1000) libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (0x4149a000) However, these files have not been created on the new server AND, when I run rpm -qf on my dev. machine I get the answer that these files do not belong to any package. Has anyone else had this problem? If so how did you solve it? If not, what is the correct package for /usr/lib/libGL.so.1? Tarjei

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Keeping Partitions and y2update
by Frank Pascher 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

Hi, At the moment I'm running in circles. I'm trying to integrate y2update on our install-server. Installation is done via nfs with option: autoyast=nfs://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/install/repository/pc232_inst and install=nfs://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/install/suse8.2 The y2update is located here: /install/suse8.2/linux/suse/i586-8.2/y2update/y2update Result: y2update does not seem to be used. Any ideas ??? Thanks in advance. cheers frank pascher +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie | | Abt.1 (wissenschaftliche DV) | | | | Frank Pascher | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Auf dem Huegel 69 Tel.: +49 (228) 525 359 | | 53121 Bonn Fax.: +49 (228) 535 229 | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Email: mailto:fpascher@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de | | WWW: http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de | | PGP Fingerprint: 13D1 8C86 57B3 2850 F158 4879 E5F3 7E20 | +----------------------------------------------------------+

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serious problem: installation crash
by Berge, Harry ten 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

Hi, I've got a serious problem: the installation procedure crashes when YaST2 is coming up. I'm using a patched bootable SuSE (8.2) CD, and it worked perfectly until now. After some debugging I found out that the problem is somehow hardware related: if I run 'hwinfo' manually before YaST2 is starting it's autoinstallation procedure everything goes ok. If not, than YaST2 crashes. Strange thing is that when i run 'hwinfo' there is a lot of screen garbage generated when it shows my NIC settings (Intel). I've tested it on 2 new machines (we're using HP XW4000 workstations) so it's not a faulty machine... I'm guessing the machines are equipped with a new chipset or something... Anyone a suggestion what to do? I can patch my CD that 'hwinfo' will be run before the auto installation process does this, but I find it a ugly hack :-( > Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards, > H.J. ten Berge Test Engineer HITT Traffic Oude Apeldoornseweg 41-45 P.O. Box 717 NL-7300 AS, APELDOORN The Netherlands Telephone +31-55-543 26 34 Fax +31-55-543 25 53 E-mail mailto:berge@hitt.nl Internet http://www.hitt-traffic.nl

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Network install, floppy only
by Robison, Jonathon (M.) 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

I realize that this seems old hat for many of you, but we are having difficulty creating this. We would like to have a floppy somehwhat like RedHat's "bootnet.img" which can be used to boot a system and the system will begin an installation from an http server. No CDROM required. I've looked at the /boot/bootdisk file, and I see no config file that will let me edit to point it at the server. Obviously I am missing something (probably simple), but I'd appreciate it if someone could "give me a clue". Jon R.

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Defaulting to DE keyboard and runlevel 3, also DHCPTimeout bug? (SuSE 8.2)
by Robert Giles 11 Aug '03

11 Aug '03

Hi folks - I'm having a problem with the autoinstaller ignoring configuration choices I've made with the "yast2 autoyast" configuration editor: - Keyboard defaults to German, during the install and even after I get X up and running, have to edit the XF86Config file by hand to fix this. (I've set the keyboard to en_US in autoyast of course). - Regardless of what I pick in the autoyast runlevel editor, the freshly-installed system always starts in console mode (init 3). - I've picked "local time" in autoyast, but the installer always defaults to Zulu on the hardware clock. Not a big deal, but why is YaST2 ignoring directives from my autoinstall XML file? - Setting a value for DHCPTimeout in /info on my network install CD causes the system to immediately abort after trying eth0 (the whole purpose is to reduce the timeout so we can get to eth1, eth2, eth3, etc., a little more quickly, right?) Thanks in advance for any help out there! ----------------------------------------------------------- Robert Giles Group System Administrator SPD/ARL:UT (512) 835-3077 � Fax (512) 490-4244

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SuSe 8.1 partition table problem
by Maxim Cherniavsky 11 Aug '03

11 Aug '03

Hi list. I have a problem during installation of SuSE 8.1 Pro on a machine with already installed version of SuSE 7.1 with kernel 2.2.18. I want to make a clean installation but with keeping one partition untouched. So I begin with the installation, but when process reaches partition setup step, YaST reports that there are no partition tables avalible on my disk. I've tried to tell Yast to reload partition table but this made no sense. This seems very strange to me :( If I boot from my old system fdisk reports: fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4462 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 66 530113+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sda2 67 719 5245222+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 720 2025 10490445 83 Linux /dev/sda4 2026 4462 19575202+ 83 Linux But if I boot from SuSE 8.1 rescue system fdisk reports that there are no partition table. What may cause this sort of troubles? Maybe the problem is in the new driver for AMD Raid (my disks are under its control) included in SuSE 8.1 ? -- Best regards, Maxim Cherniavsky MTU-Intel, Internet Department mailto:maxim@mtu.ru

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Script for updating a repository
by Tarjei Huse 10 Aug '03

10 Aug '03

Hi, I got two new questions :-) 1) Does anyone have a script for updateing a repository with the latest rpms from SuSE? I preferably want something that may work with apt-get. 2) Does anyone have set up systems for automatic updating an autoinstall from a central repository? If so, how is this set up, is there any best pratices etc? Thanks, Tarjei

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Custom repository not working
by Tarjei Huse 08 Aug '03

08 Aug '03

Hi, I've created a custom repository out of downloading the 8.2 directory from ftp.gwdg.de. I did not however download all of the src directory. Now, after running /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/create_package_descr -d /mp3/8.2/suse while standing in /mp3/8.2/suse, I change the default YAST2 installation source to the directory /mp3/8.2/suse After doing this, I run autoyast2 ant try to select different packages. The problem is that I cannot find many packages I know are in the repository. For example, I try to find logrotate, but the package is not in the list. However, the package is in the suse/i586 directory where it should be. Has anyone experienced this before? Does anyone know what is wrong? (Yup I've bought the pro version, but I want to use the ftp version so I may use apt-get afterwords....) Tarjei

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init process failed over pxe with own initrd
by Markus Klimke 08 Aug '03

08 Aug '03

Hello again, a little update: I have copied the original linuxrc file from the SuSE initrd into my own ramdisc... and it works. So, in which format has a linuxrc to be? It seems to be a statically linked binary, but I want to use a shell script, because it will fit all my needs. Can anybody help?? Markus

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autoyast over nfs works, over http fails.....
by Joachim Jordan 08 Aug '03

08 Aug '03

Hello, it looks as if put the CDs in different directories and use the yast/order and yast/instorder files to tell them where to find them, the install via http and ftp fails. When i change it to nfs, everything works fine. And i checked in the apache log files, it only fails for the files suse/desc/packages that exist only for a one-source install. My grub config is this: default pxeboot label pxeboot kernel /xSLES8/linux append initrd=/xSLES8/initrd insmod=tg3 acpi=oldboot autoyast=http://192.168.70.254/Configurations/ \ "in the real config its in one line" install=nfs://192.168.70.254/store/BootRepository/xSeries/SLES8/ UseSSH=1 SSHPassword=none textmode=1 label disk localboot 0 if i exchange the nfs path against http, and it works for w3m, the install fails with error in the software selection. Best regards, Joachim Jordan Linux IT Architect, EMEA Linux Center of Competence IBM Laboratories, Dept.3300, Schoenaicherstr.220, D 71032 Boeblingen, Germany Sametime/e-mail: jordanj(a)de.ibm.com, Phone: +49-7031-16-4407; Fax: +49-7031-16-3232

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