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Howto use RIS service in autoyast?
by Andreas Vetter 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

Hi, is there a way in autoyast to use a RIS service (repoindex.xml file like https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-repos/blob/main/opensuse-leap-repoinde…) instead of a list of repositories? Something to replace: <add-on> <add_on_products config:type="list"> <listentry> <media_url><![CDATA[https:// ... </listentry> </add_on_products> </add-on> -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Andreas Vetter

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Yast2second stange (testX) hangs while installing via autoyast
by Daniel Spannbauer 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

Hello, I try to install our Systems via autoyast (which works like a charm with 15.2) with a preconfigured Leap 15.5 After a reboot it hangs when starting the second stage of yast. /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.Second-Stage starts some processes, also /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/testX. The X is started, but textX becommes a zombie and it hangs. Any ideas, how to debug this? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 https://www.marco.de Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter, Torsten Lukas HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München

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Bug in autoyast documentation or validation profile?
by Daniel Spannbauer 30 Jun '23

30 Jun '23

Hello, in our autoyast profile we use: <sound> <autoinstall config:type="boolean">true</autoinstall> <configure_detected config:type="boolean">true</configure_detected> </sound> If I check the profile with jing oder xmllint aganst the autoyast rng, it claims about an unallowed "autoinstall" tag. "error: element "autoinstall" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag or element "configure_detected", "modules_conf", "pulse_audio_status", "rc_vars" or "volume_settings"" But this tag is listed in the documentation at https://doc.opensuse.org/projects/autoyast/ 4.38.2 "Sound devices". So whats wrong, the rng or the docs? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 https://www.marco.de Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter, Torsten Lukas HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München

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Correct/best way to specify path to autoyast
by Daniel Spannbauer 21 Dec '22

21 Dec '22

Hello, we create an iso image of an installation media. This can be used for burning an DVD or for copying it on an usb key. What is the best way to append an "autoyast=" line? Atm. we use two files for syslinux and isolinux, but I wan't to simplify it. But when I use "autoyast=file:///autoyast.xml" the file could not be found, when I start from USB. When I add "autoyast=usb:///autoyast.xml" it can't be found when starting from DVD. So is there a config which lets yast search it on alle media? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 https://www.marco.de Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter, Torsten Lukas HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München

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Re: Getting verbose progress back on 15SP4?
by Frank Steiner 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Hi Imo, sorry for ignoring you here :-) I posted a similar message on the yast-devel list and we a little discussion there. My last (although unanswered) proposal was adding a little button or sth. similar that would either open a popup or display a window below the progress bar that would show the output of sth. like "tail -f /var/log/YaST2/y2log |grep -o 'Executing.*'" That would be trivial to implement but give at least the info which packages are currently installed. Definitely better than nothing. And as it would be hidden by default, "normal" users would still just see the single progress bar. Maybe that's worth considering for the next release... cu, Frank igonzalezsosa wrote: > El 2022-07-05 06:27, Frank Steiner escribió: >> Hi Imo, > > Hi Frank, > >> Imobach Gonzalez Sosa wrote: >> >>> Sorry, but there is no way to show the package names. For 15 SP4 we >>> decided to simplify the progress screen. The main reason is that >>> libzypp will support parallel packages installation and we found out >>> that the old screen did not fit in that scenario at all. >>> >>> If you are interested, you might check the mailing list[1] discussion >>> and some of the PRs[2][3] in GitHub. >> >> thanks for the explanation, but this was a very very bad decision. >> This is not MacOS where Apple is trying to keep users as stupid as >> possible. This is Linux where we are used to get detailed information >> and see what's going on. > > I am sorry that you dislike our decision. To be honest, we think that > most of the time you will see a lot of moving stuff that you can barely > read. The kernel package is usually the exception. Perhaps we could > bring back the package names, although we will install many of them at > the same time. Would it be enough for you? > >> And parallel operations are not an argument. Kernel and systemd are >> doing bunch of stuff in parallel during boot process and are able to >> show even several progress bars in parallel. It's easy to stack output >> of parallel operations. >> >> Now you have got just one bar which stays at the same state for minutes >> and it's not possible to see why. I had to ssh to the host to check AY >> has not crashed. > > Actually, that's because of bug 1199621[1] (the counters are not updated > during the process). > >> If there had been detailed information I could have a) seen which >> package >> is installing and that it is a huge one that takes some time and b) see >> the progress bar of all packages currently installing to know that >> things >> are still moving. >> >> Keeping information from users is always a very bad idea. That's what >> Windows and MacOS do. You shouldn't try to take that direction. > > In our opinion, the old interface was not even the way to go: displaying > a lot of info that goes too fast to be read. And we know that things > would get worse with the support for parallel package installation. > > But, as always, we are open to discussing other proposals and > introducing changes to improve. Feedback is always welcome. > > Regards, > Imo > > [1] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199621 -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *

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Getting verbose progress back on 15SP4?
by Frank Steiner 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Hi, doing the first installation of a 15SP4 system with AY we see the progress report has been reduced to the progress bar and the number and size of the remaining packages. In all previous version we could see the list of repos, how many packages from each repo had already been installed etc. and (most important!) the name of the package currently installed. All this info is now gone. I didn't find an option in the AY doku for SP4. Is there any way to get the verbose information back? At least the name of the currently installing package? Thanks! cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *

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Dialog while running post installation scripts?
by Daniel Spannbauer 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

Hello, I'm running some post installation scripts, which are running some minutes. There is only a black screen with a blinking cursor. Is it possible to show the yast screen, that shows, that the post installation scripts are running? Otherwise it could be confused with a hanging system. I'm using Leap 15.2 atm... Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München

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AutoYaST - Is there a way to specify the LSM to use in the autoinst.xml control file?
by Jinesh Choksi 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

I've created an AutoYaST control file (autoinst.xml) which installs an openSUSE Tumbleweed system for use as a Virtual Machine OS. There are three issues I've not been able to fing a solution/workaround for: 1. There doesn't seem to be a way to specify which Linux Security Module is selected via autoinst.xml. This means that my attempts to remove apparmor related patterns / packages fail and it requires manual intervention. As far as I can tell, the LSM is specified in the control.xml file in the openSUSE installation media's /x86_64/openSUSE-release-*.rpm package and I don't know how I can override it. 2. After looking at examples on how to prompt the user for a hostname, I believe I've configured the control file correctly but it never sets the machine's hostname to the value the user provides. It always sets it to the literal value of the <hostname>...</hostname> tag. Does anyone see anything wrong with the control file? <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE profile> <profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <add-on t="map"> <add_on_others t="list"> <listentry t="map"> <alias>download.opensuse.org-oss</alias> <media_url>https://mirrorcache-eu.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/</media_url> <name>Main Repository (OSS)</name> <priority t="integer">99</priority> <product_dir>/</product_dir> </listentry> <listentry t="map"> <alias>download.opensuse.org-non-oss</alias> <media_url>https://mirrorcache-eu.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/</media_url> <name>Main Repository (NON-OSS)</name> <priority t="integer">99</priority> <product_dir>/</product_dir> </listentry> <listentry t="map"> <alias>download.opensuse.org-tumbleweed</alias> <media_url>https://mirrorcache-eu.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/</media_url> <name>Main Update Repository</name> <priority t="integer">99</priority> <product_dir>/</product_dir> </listentry> </add_on_others> </add-on> <bootloader t="map"> <global t="map"> <append>mitigations=auto loglevel=4 systemd.log_level=warning udev.log_level=warning</append> <cpu_mitigations>auto</cpu_mitigations> <hiddenmenu>false</hiddenmenu> <os_prober>false</os_prober> <secure_boot>true</secure_boot> <terminal>console</terminal> <timeout t="integer">10</timeout> </global> <loader_type>grub2-efi</loader_type> </bootloader> <general t="map"> <ask-list t="list"> <ask> <pathlist t="list"> <path>networking,dns,hostname</path> </pathlist> <question>Enter a FQDN Hostname (Long Format) for this machine</question> <stage>initial</stage> <default>localhost.localdomain</default> <help>Provide a fully qualified hostname for this machine.</help> <title>Hostname</title> <type>string</type> </ask> </ask-list> <semi-automatic t="list"> <semi-automatic_entry>networking</semi-automatic_entry> <semi-automatic_entry>partitioning</semi-automatic_entry> </semi-automatic> <mode t="map"> <confirm t="boolean">true</confirm> <second_stage t="boolean">false</second_stage> </mode> </general> <groups t="list"> <group t="map"> <encrypted t="boolean">true</encrypted> <gid>100</gid> <group_password>x</group_password> <groupname>users</groupname> <userlist/> </group> <group t="map"> <encrypted t="boolean">true</encrypted> <gid>0</gid> <group_password>x</group_password> <groupname>root</groupname> <userlist/> </group> </groups> <host t="map"> <hosts t="list"> <hosts_entry t="map"> <host_address>127.0.0.1</host_address> <names t="list"> <name>localhost</name> <name>localhost.localdomain</name> </names> </hosts_entry> <hosts_entry t="map"> <host_address>::1</host_address> <names t="list"> <name>localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback</name> </names> </hosts_entry> <hosts_entry t="map"> <host_address>fe00::0</host_address> <names t="list"> <name>ipv6-localnet</name> </names> </hosts_entry> <hosts_entry t="map"> <host_address>ff00::0</host_address> <names t="list"> <name>ipv6-mcastprefix</name> </names> </hosts_entry> <hosts_entry t="map"> <host_address>ff02::1</host_address> <names t="list"> <name>ipv6-allnodes</name> </names> </hosts_entry> <hosts_entry t="map"> <host_address>ff02::2</host_address> <names t="list"> <name>ipv6-allrouters</name> </names> </hosts_entry> <hosts_entry t="map"> <host_address>ff02::3</host_address> <names t="list"> <name>ipv6-allhosts</name> </names> </hosts_entry> </hosts> </host> <language t="map"> <language>en_GB</language> <languages>en_GB</languages> </language> <networking t="map"> <dns t="map"> <hostname>foo</hostname> <domain>bar</domain> <dhcp_hostname t="boolean">false</dhcp_hostname> <resolv_conf_policy>auto</resolv_conf_policy> </dns> <backend>wicked</backend> </networking> <services-manager t="map"> <default_target>multi-user</default_target> </services-manager> <software t="map"> <install_recommended t="boolean">true</install_recommended> <packages t="list">  <package>glibc-locale</package> <package>curl</package> </packages> <patterns t="list">  <pattern>base</pattern> <pattern>minimal_base</pattern> </patterns> <remove-packages t="list">  <package>adjtimex</package> <package>apparmor-abstractions</package> <package>augeas-lenses</package> <package>cpio-mt</package> <package>cracklib</package> <package>dmraid</package> <package>dnsmasq</package> <package>dump-rmt</package> <package>ibmtss-base</package> <package>irqbalance</package> <package>kernel-firmware-all</package> <package>kernel-firmware</package> <package>ModemManager</package> <package>mt-st</package> <package>numactl</package> <package>patterns-base-apparmor</package> <package>rp-pppoe</package> <package>schily-mt</package> <package>schily-rmt</package> <package>sg3_utils</package> <package>sound-theme-freedesktop</package> <package>tar-rmt</package> <package>ucode-amd</package> <package>ucode-intel</package> <package>zypper-lifecycle-plugin</package> </remove-packages> <remove-patterns t="list">  <pattern>apparmor</pattern> </remove-patterns> <products t="list"> <product>openSUSE</product> </products> </software> <timezone t="map"> <hwclock>UTC</hwclock> <timezone>Europe/London</timezone> </timezone> <keyboard> <keymap>english-uk</keymap> </keyboard> <user_defaults t="map"> <expire/> <group>100</group> <groups/> <home>/home</home> <inactive>-1</inactive> <no_groups t="boolean">true</no_groups> <shell>/bin/bash</shell> <skel>/etc/skel</skel> <umask>022</umask> </user_defaults> <users t="list"> <user t="map"> <authorized_keys t="list"/> <encrypted t="boolean">false</encrypted> <fullname>root</fullname> <gid>0</gid> <home>/root</home> <home_btrfs_subvolume t="boolean">false</home_btrfs_subvolume> <password_settings t="map"> <expire/> <flag/> <inact/> <max/> <min/> <warn/> </password_settings> <shell>/bin/bash</shell> <uid>0</uid> <user_password>Passw0rd</user_password> <username>root</username> </user> </users> <scripts t="map">  <chroot-scripts t="list"> <script> <chrooted t="boolean">true</chrooted> <filename>chroot-post.sh</filename> <interpreter>/bin/bash -x</interpreter> <notification>Please wait while chroot-post.sh script is running...</notification> <source><![CDATA[#!/usr/bin/env bash echo "### Placeholder for things to configure:" ]]> </source> </script> </chroot-scripts> </scripts> </profile> 3. The following does not provide the user the ability to manually configure the network settings but they can configure customise the disk partitioning. Am I missing something? <semi-automatic t="list"> <semi-automatic_entry>networking</semi-automatic_entry> <semi-automatic_entry>partitioning</semi-automatic_entry> </semi-automatic> regards, Jinesh

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autoyast: repository on usb partition (leap 15.3)
by Per Lundkvist 15 Nov '21

15 Nov '21

Hi, I am trying (unsuccessfully) to create an autoyast installation image containing an additional repository with some extra packages. But all of them fails with 'Make the add-on "" available via "..."' during autoyast "Preparing System for Automated Installation" -> "Configure General Settings" * disk layout $ parted -s auto.img unit s print Model: (file) Disk auto.img: 9676800s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 2636s 9691s 7056s primary fat16 esp, type=ef 2 9692s 9152511s 9142820s primary boot, hidden, type=17 3 9152512s 9676799s 524288s primary ext2 type=83 where partition 3 contains an ext2 filesystem with label CUSTOM * contents of EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg on partition 1: menuentry 'Installation' --class opensuse --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { linuxefi /boot/x86_64/loader/linux autoyast=usb:///autoinst.xml initrdefi /boot/x86_64/loader/initrd } * contents of ext2 filesystem on partition 3: ./autoinst.xml ./autoyast-init-script.sh ./etc ./etc/zypp ./etc/zypp/repos.d ./etc/zypp/repos.d/repo-usb.repo ./lost+found ./repo-usb ./repo-usb/noarch ./repo-usb/noarch/ansible-2.9.6-bp153.1.20.noarch.rpm <...snip...> ./repo-usb/noarch/python3-xmltodict-0.12.0-5.4.1.noarch.rpm ./repo-usb/repodata ./repo-usb/repodata/03a5cb23fd8b5433ecd2f3f0f8012867cf2ea0d6f5715a626f67a61a03b86b09-filelists.xml.gz ./repo-usb/repodata/11a53ade1b3813f57ac17aadda703b73df74bdbb8e695922ebb5c9878f539922-primary.xml.gz ./repo-usb/repodata/d7e60c76cd87a068178dce81bc42f939c25767c94abb7946019fe75a0baf697b-other.xml.gz ./repo-usb/repodata/repomd.xml ./repo-usb/x86_64 ./repo-usb/x86_64/libbrotlicommon1-1.0.7-1.59.x86_64.rpm <...snip...> ./repo-usb/x86_64/sshpass-1.06-bp153.1.16.x86_64.rpm ./setup ./setup/descr ./setup/descr/packages ./setup/descr/packages.DU ./setup/descr/packages.en * autoinst.xml: add-on section: I've tried different variations of media_url combined with product_dir, but I have not been able to get any to work: <add-on t="map"> <add_on_others t="list"> <listentry t="map"> ** this fails with Unsupported URI scheme in 'usb:///repo-usb?alias=repo-usb-1' <alias>repo-usb-1</alias> <media_url>usb:///repo-usb</media_url> <ask_on_error t="boolean">true</ask_on_error> <name>repo-usb-1</name> <priority t="integer">99</priority> <product_dir> / </product_dir> <signature-handling t="map"> <accept_unsigned_file t="boolean">true</accept_unsigned_file> </signature-handling> </listentry> <listentry t="map"> ** this fails with Unsupported URI scheme in 'label://custom/repo-usb?alias=repo-usb-2' <alias>repo-usb-2</alias> <media_url>label://CUSTOM/repo-usb</media_url> <ask_on_error t="boolean">true</ask_on_error> <name>repo-usb-2</name> <priority t="integer">99</priority> <product_dir> / </product_dir> <signature-handling t="map"> <accept_unsigned_file t="boolean">true</accept_unsigned_file> </signature-handling> </listentry> <listentry t="map"> ** this fails with Empty destination in URI: hd:/?alias=repo-usb-3&device=*label/CUSTOM <alias>repo-usb-3</alias> <media_url>hd:/?device=*label/CUSTOM</media_url> <ask_on_error t="boolean">true</ask_on_error> <name>repo-usb-3</name> <priority t="integer">99</priority> <product_dir> /repo-usb </product_dir> <signature-handling t="map"> <accept_unsigned_file t="boolean">true</accept_unsigned_file> </signature-handling> </listentry> <listentry t="map"> ** this fails with Empty destination in URI: hd:/?alias=repo-usb-4&device=*label/CUSTOM/repo-usb <alias>repo-usb-4</alias> <media_url>hd:/?device=*label/CUSTOM/repo-usb</media_url> <ask_on_error t="boolean">true</ask_on_error> <name>repo-usb-4</name> <priority t="integer">99</priority> <product_dir> / </product_dir> <signature-handling t="map"> <accept_unsigned_file t="boolean">true</accept_unsigned_file> </signature-handling> </listentry> <listentry t="map"> ** this fails with Unsupported URI scheme in 'disk:///repo-usb?alias?repo-usb-5' <alias>repo-usb-5</alias> <media_url>disk:/repo-usb</media_url> <ask_on_error t="boolean">true</ask_on_error> <name>repo-usb-5</name> <priority t="integer">99</priority> <product_dir> / </product_dir> <signature-handling t="map"> <accept_unsigned_file t="boolean">true</accept_unsigned_file> </signature-handling> </listentry> </add_on_others> Any ideas on how to do this?

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AutoYaST <authorized_key> not working on openSUSE Tumbleweed
by - - 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

Hello, I'm making my own autoinst.xml files. Everything works fine but I cannot give a user authorized_keys file. After installing, I login and find there is no $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys files, even no $HOME/.ssh folder. Below is part of autoinst.xml: <user t="map"> <username>user_name</username> <encrypted t="boolean">true</encrypted> <user_password>xxxxxxxxxxxx</user_password> <authorized_keys t="list"> <authorized_key>ssh-rsa xxxxxxxxxx</authorized_key> </authorized_keys> </user> Is there a bug that authorized_keys cannot be assigned in AutoYast? Thank you.

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