Hello All, I send this message to give information about a bug I encountered using autoyast SLES 10 and Profilant HP servers. The HP Smart array raid controllers creates "nested" devices in /dev : cciss/c0d0p1 is the first partition of the first logical drive of the first controller The use of : autoyast=device://cciss/c0d0p1/autoinst.xml failed (profile file not found error in Yast) After some time consuming investigations, I found these lines in the y2log file : 006-07-17 17:18:06 <1> 192.168.0.43(3346) [YCP] autoinstall/io.ycp:227 nested device found 2006-07-17 17:18:06 <1> 192.168.0.43(3346) [YCP] autoinstall/io.ycp:232 Host=cciss/ Path=c0d0p1/autoinst/autoinst.xml 2006-07-17 17:18:06 <1> 192.168.0.43(3346) [YCP] autoinstall/io.ycp:227 nested device found 2006-07-17 17:18:06 <1> 192.168.0.43(3346) [YCP] autoinstall/io.ycp:232 Host=cciss//c0d0p1 Path=autoinst/autoinst.xml 2006-07-17 17:18:06 <1> 192.168.0.43(3346) [agent-system] SystemAgent.cc(Read):544 Can't access directory '/dev/cciss//c0d0p1': Not a directory' 2006-07-17 17:18:06 <3> 192.168.0.43(3346) [bash] ShellCommand.cc(shellcommand):78 /bin/cp: cannot stat `/tmp/YaST2-03346-Op2jd3/tmp_mountautoinst/ autoinst.xml': No such file or directory 2006-07-17 17:18:06 <3> 192.168.0.43(3346) [YCP] autoinstall/io.ycp:243 file /tmp/YaST2-03346-Op2jd3/tmp_mountautoinst/autoinst.xml can't be found The guilty lines are located in the Get function of the io.ycp module. It seems that there is some lines of code to take care of "nested devices" but it does not work. /* sometimes we have devices like /dev/cciss/c1d0p5 those "nested" devices will be catched here as long as we find a directory where we expect a device, we cut down the Path and enhance the Host (device name) */ while( SCR::Read( .target.dir, "/dev/"+Host ) != nil ) { y2milestone("nested device found"); list<string> l = splitstring( Path, "/" ); Host = Host + "/" + l[0]:""; l = remove(l,0); Path = mergestring(l,"/"); y2milestone("Host=%1 Path=%2",Host,Path); } // catching nested devices done autoyast=device://cciss/c0d0p1///autoinst.xml works as a workaround. Hoping that this information can be useful to other happy SuSE administrators. Regards, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org