Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[<richard.foley@xxxxxxx>]

>I just tried to find where you "posted" the solution.
>All I found was a "German" solution.
>http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Nov/0897.html
>
That's correct, but I explained the steps in the first para.

Ok. for completeness I'll write them out in English here:

The PROBLEM is that on my Sony Vaio PCG-C1MGP (mini-laptop) the installation became impassably stuck when RPM attempted to install this file:

	/var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/MEDIA/suse/i686/glibc-2.3.2-88.i686.rpm 

When it should use this file:

	/var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/MEDIA/suse/i586/glibc-2.3.2-87.i586.rpm 

It failed with the following message:
	
	package glibc-2.3.2-88 is intended for a i686 architecture 

Continuing (using 'IGNORE') was a waste of time as such basic utilities as grep, gawk etc. etc. also failed to install.  The strange thing about this, is that the glibc.* file is the only file in the i686 directory (apart from the MD5SUMS file), and up until this point RPM had been merrily installing i585 packages.

This being a vanilla SuSe 9.0 install I was a bit surprised to say the least, although everybody keeps telling me not to install a dot-zero release (I must have itchy fingers :)  

I had recognised the problem, from scouting around with a root window behind the install session, but couldn't figure out how to remove the errant i686 rpm without reburning the entire CD-ROM, which I was understandably trying to avoid.  

Rüdiger Meier came up with the bright idea of 'mount'ing over the offending directory and placing the correct (i586) rpm in it's place.  Like this:

	>export MEDIA=/var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/MEDIA/suse/
	>mount /dev/fd0 $MEDIA/i686
	>cd $MEDIA/i686
	>cp $MEDIA/i586/glibc-2.3.2-87.i586.rpm .
	>md5sum $MEDIA/i586/glibc-2.3.2-87.i586.rpm > MD5SUMS
	>

And then continuing with the Yast2 installation with a 'RETRY' and everything was fine after that.  My vaio finally has an out-of-the-box functional hotswap usb floppy, 1024x480 screen support, and the network card works without having to patch and recompile the kernel or anything daft like that.

	:-)

>However, i noticed that you didn't "reply" to your posts,
>so in the archieves, rather than being "threaded",
>each one is a separate post.
That's because even though I'm subscribed to the list, I never recieved a message from myself, only from other people (ie; replies came through but not the initial post).  And where I wanted to extend what I had already written, I had to mail another (new) message.  I'd also cross-posted to both German and English lists and gotten rightfully flamed for doing so, so I wanted to start a new thread too.

I agree, it was messy, sorry.

>You make it tough on us...
>Gar
>
Probably not on purpose.

	;-)

Richard Foley
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