August 2007 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

linuxrc - netdevice=<hwaddress>
by John Willis 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Does anyone know if any of the SLES releases 9 or 10 support passing the linuxrc option netdevice=<hardware mac address> ? I noticed Red Hat has had this for sometime and it seems totally missing in SuSE which seems really odd. I'm still scratching my head if we really are still passing only by kernel interface name. I read in the change log for linuxrc-1.8.6-3 a change that "sounds" like this feature. * Mon Mar 14 2005 - snwint(a)suse.de - s390: fix segfault in net_list_s390_devs() - extra root image was sometimes not used - allow netdevices to be specified by hwaddress But it looks like linuxrc-1.8.6-3 is only available in SuSE Professional 9.3. "any" commentary would be sincerely appreciated the feature also seems to be fairly minor since any delimiter seperating the octets in the hwaddr string could be used to identify the difference between an interface name and interface hw address if i could figure out a generic method of overriding the linuxrc with a custom script and daisy chain it back into linuxrc after setting up the interface name, I would.. and have a slight idea on how to do that.. but i'd rather find out i'm just missing something and the feature is already there Thanks!

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] SLES 10 RC2 remove-packages section?
by Matt Gillard 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

I dont have kinternet installed. This is what doesnt seem to work: <software> <patterns config:type="list"> <pattern>default</pattern> <pattern>Basis-Devel</pattern> <pattern>x11</pattern> </patterns> <packages config:type="list"> <packages>perl-libwww-perl</packages> <packages>net-snmp</packages> <packages>kernel-source</packages> </packages> <remove-packages config:type="list"> <packages>pptp</packages> <packages>smpppd</packages> <packages>ppp</packages> <packages>wvdial</packages> <packages>mutt</packages> </remove-packages> </software> In y2log it mentions that those packages should be removed, but it goes ahead and installs them anyway. I can do it manually on the command line: # rpm -e pptp smpppd ppp wvdial mutt and that works fine so I know I have no dependency problems. matt > -----Original Message----- > From: Uwe Gansert [mailto:ug@suse.de] > Sent: Friday, 30 June 2006 12:50 AM > To: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] SLES 10 RC2 remove-packages section? > > > On Thursday 29 June 2006 16:45, Manfred Hollstein wrote: > > > If that fails, you have kinternet installed; add that to > the list and it > > should work. > > good point. > <remove-packages> can not break dependencies and so it's very > likely that > there is still a package that needs those packages. > I did a very small installation with no X - so it worked for me. > > -- > ciao, Uwe Gansert > > Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany > Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de/~ug > now playing Covenant - Wasteland > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help(a)suse.com > > This email and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information and are intended for the named addressee only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Any confidentiality, privilege or copyright is not waived or lost because this e-mail has been sent to you in error. It is your responsibility to check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. No warranty is made that this material is free from computer virus or any other defect or error. Any loss/damage incurred by using this material is not the sender's responsibility. The sender's entire liability will be limited to resupplying the material.

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[opensuse-autoinstall] is it possible to install latest SLES 10 SP1 patches during autoinstall?
by Chris Partridge 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

I am using SLES 10 SP1 and AutoYaST. I have my autoyast profile setup to configure Novell Customer Center with the correct registration code and I verified that my server gets registered with NCC. Now I'd like to have AutoYaST install all the latest patches at the appropriate place during auto-installation. Is this possible? Thanks, Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Strange problem with creating a modified.xml
by Mike Marion 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

What does "Can't detect Profile Version" usually indicate? >From y2log.. === 2007-02-28 01:27:04 <1> 10.42.37.174(3375) [YCP] AutoinstScripts.ycp:545 Script Execution command: /bin/sh /tmp/YaST2-03375-S80cIe/pre-scripts/pre.sh 2&> /tmp/YaST2-03375-S80cIe/pre-scripts/logs/pre.sh.log 2007-02-28 01:27:04 <1> 10.42.37.174(3375) [YCP] XML.ycp:113 Reading /tmp/profile/modified.xml 2007-02-28 01:27:04 <1> 10.42.37.174(3375) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(Read):758 Setting XML generic error handler 2007-02-28 01:27:04 <1> 10.42.37.174(3375) [agent-xml] XmlAgent.cc(Read):793 Freeing generic XML error handler 2007-02-28 01:27:04 <1> 10.42.37.174(3375) [YCP] Profile.ycp:167 importing profile 2007-02-28 01:27:04 <1> 10.42.37.174(3375) [YCP] Profile.ycp:149 Can't detect Profile Version === The bizarre thing is that I'm trying to use a pre.sh script to replace some lines in the profile, writing it out as /tmp/profile/modified.xml and this fails. But, if I take exactly that modified.xml file (scp'd off via the console) and feed that back into the same host again on a new attempt at installing, I get the above error, but the autoinst.xml (which should be invalid too since it's identical[*]) works fine. This makes no sense... why would it reject modified.xml but work just fine as the fallback? Is there something in the parsing of modified.xml that is a little more strict I might be missing? [*]there are differences in a couple of the scripts, the parsing I'm doing removes the backslashes that I used i some sed commands, so I double backslash them. This doesn't effect the profile itself though. A diff shows that the autoinst.xml (which works) vs the modified.xml (which is rejected) are the same, other then the backslashes inside the scripts CDATA blocks. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com Grandpa: "Quick! We have to kill the boy!" Marge: "How'd you know he's a vampire?" Grandpa: "He's a vampire?!? Ahhh...." [runs away] ==> Simpsons -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Problems using classes with SLES10
by Michael T. Halligan 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

I'm attempting to normalize our library of AutoYaST XML files, and am running into some problems Here's how I'm calling the class in my autoinst.xml file : <classes config:type="list"> <class> <class_name>Database</class_name> <configuration>Files.xml</configuration> <configuration>Software.xml</configuration> </class> </classes> Here's the file in classes/Database : <software> <packages config:type="list"> <package>findutils-locate</package> <package>perl-Net-SNMP</package> <package>rcs</package> <package>seccheck</package> <package>net-snmp</package> <package>freetype2-devel</package> <package>openssl-devel</package> <package>freetype2</package> <package>freetype2-devel</package> <package>xorg-x11-devel</package> <package>fontconfig-devel</package> <package>libmcrypt</package> <package>gd-devel</package> <package>libpng-devel</package> <package>compat-curl2</package> <package>curl</package> <package>curl-devel</package> </packages> <patterns config:type="list"> <pattern>base</pattern> <pattern>Basis-Devel</pattern> </patterns> </software> Here's the error I get on the console when attempting to install with this: Software.xml:2: namespace error : Namespace prefix config for type on packages is not defined <packages config:type="list"> ^ Soft.xml:21: namespace error : Namespace prefix config for type on patterns is not defined <patterns config:type="list"> ^ What am I doing wrong here? I followed Uwe's documentation verbatim. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Formating Hard Disk
by Mohammad Haque 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Q: aborting autoyast after an error in prescript
by Jochen Schaefer 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Hi list, I would like to know how to abort autoyast from a prescript. At this moment when I execute my prescript with an exit code different from zero autoyast just goes further. How can I achieve an valid error message and stop autoyast. I'm aware of the feedback tag but that's not what I want. Thanks, Jochen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Odd hang near end of 32bit sles9-sp3 for 10min or so..
by Mike Marion 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

All of a sudden I'm seeing most 32bit installs hang for about 10min at the stage where it's copying log files locally. There's no popup or anything asking for my interaction, so that's not it. I switched ttys and found that an scr process is pegging the cpu, and it has some children: 7023 root 25 0 16956 8316 5352 R 99.9 0.2 2:32.36 scr / # !pst pstree 1612 inst_setup---yast---YaST2---YaST2---y2base-+-scr `-y2base---2*[y2base] If I strace the y2base processes, they're not doing much, examples: / # strace -f -p 3912 Process 3912 attached - interrupt to quit rt_sigsuspend([WINCH] / # strace -f -p 3733 Process 3733 attached - interrupt to quit select(11, [0 10], NULL, NULL, {3, 588000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(11, [0 10], NULL, NULL, {5, 0} / # strace -f -p 3732 Process 3732 attached - interrupt to quit getppid() = 3694 poll([{fd=12, events=POLLIN}], 1, 2000) = 0 getppid() = 3694 poll([{fd=12, events=POLLIN}], 1, 2000) = 0 getppid() = 3694 poll([{fd=12, events=POLLIN}], 1, 2000) = 0 getppid() = 3694 If I strace the scr process itself it looks like it's being fed some info to stdin, one character at a time. Strace looks like: 7023 read(0, "r", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, "e", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, "s", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, " ", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, "k", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, "s", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, "y", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, "m", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, "(", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, "a", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, "c", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, "p", 1) = 1 7023 read(0, "i", 1) = 1 Etc... if I pull out the data, I get stuff like: res ksym(acpi_bus_unregister_driver) = 82ff3d07-, kernel-bigsmp-2.6.16.21-0.9 requires ksym(snd_hda_suspend) = 8306e542-, kernel-bigsmp-2.6.16.21-0.9 requires ksym(snd_midi_channel_set_clear) = 833a3e07-, kernel-bigsmp-2.6.16.21-0.9 requires ksym(v4l_compat_translate_ioctl) [snip] Which looks like dependencies for the kernel.. but why is it coming in 1 char at a time? Note for those curious.. yes, we're running a mixed sles9-sp3.. I used the src.rpm from sles10 to build the sles10 kernel (also needed updated rpm, mkinitrd, and 1 or 2 other rpms) on top of sles9-sp3 so we get the updated kernel benefits and still maintain the older libraries which our big ISVs are still on. Oh, and we rev'd from 2.6.16.21-0.8 to 2.6.16.21-0.9 when we added patches for autofs5. I'll doublecheck to make sure I didn't leave in some extra verbose info in the build that could be triggering the above as the x86_64 version doesn't do this pause. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com Lisa: "As you know, we've been swimming. And we've developed a taste for it. We agree that getting our own pool is the way to go. Now before you respond, you should know that your refusal will result in months and months of..." Bart, Lisa: "CanwehaveapoolDad? CanwehaveapoolDad? CanwehaveapoolDad? CanwehaveapoolDad? CanwehaveapoolDad?" Homer: "I understand. Let us celebrate our agreement with the adding of chocolate to milk." -- Simpsons -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Has anybody ever used classes?
by Michael T. Halligan 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Before I waste a huge amount of time, has anybody actually ever successfully used the classes feature of Autoinstall? It feels sometimes like I'm the only person using autoinstall period, based on how little traffic there is on this list, and how many documentation problems i run into. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] What happened to suse-autoinstall@suse.com ???
by Michael T. Halligan 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Is this another thing that someone at SuSE just randomly decided that people no longer needed, and deleted without notice? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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