Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (70 mails)

["Sylvain Le Courtois (alplog)" <s.lecourtois@xxxxxxxxx>]

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, 

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