Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (33 mails)

[Bernd Nies <listuser@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm trying to deploy Opensuse 11.0 on our ca 200 company workstations
which runs on Dell Precision hardware. Currently we have Opensuse 10.1.

I know how Autoyast works and use it since Suse 9.0. Basically we use
Autoyast for the hardware autoconfiguration and package selection and do
network setup and customization in later init scripts.

There are some differences how the system gets configured when I install
Opensuse 11.0 manually from DVD and with Autoyast from NFS server.

Problems when configured with Autoyast on Dell Precision 670 (both 32bit
and 64bit OS installation):

  - Automounter core files at every boot

  - Boot process freezes when entering runlevel 5 during autoyast
    installation - even with acpi=off as boot parameter. Disabling
    acpid in runlevel 5 helped a bit.

  - Messagebus Daemon crashes on startup (req. for USB mounts)
    Starting D-Bus daemon/etc/init.d/dbus: line 45: 1401 segmentation
    fault $DBUS_DAEMON_BIN $DBUS_DAEMON_PARAMETER

  - Powerd crashes at startup

  - Smard crashes at startup
    exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/smardtd: 17

  - VMware Workstation 6.0.5 modules compile but vmware hangs forever
    on GUI startup (strace ends at FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE)

All this does not happen, when I perform a manual installation. I have
no idea what's going wrong. Similar issues we have with Opensuse 10.1.
Except for automounter they don't produce a core file. Is there a
pendant for Solaris coreadm on Linux?

Does someone use Autoyast for installing Opensuse 11.0 on Dell hardware
(Precision 650, 670, 490, T5400)?

Why doesn't use Autoyast and manual Yast the same code base and
algorithm for configuring hardware and software?

Bye
Bernd

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