On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Jim Faulkner wrote:
I'll start a run of autoyast on it and follow up with more info.
OK, I was able to successfully create a reference profile on this machine. However, it took an extremely long time. It literally took almost 14 hours to generate the reference profile. And again, there is significant duplication in the <patterns> and <remove-packages> sections of the resulting XML file. This time I shut down cron so there would be no log rotation while generating the reference profile. I also moved the existing y2log out of the way before running autoyast. This way the resulting y2log consists of only my autoyast run. Here is the log: http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/jim/y2log-gari.bz2 As you can see, I started the autoyast run at around 12:53 on 2009-07-24. It did not complete until 1:58 on 2009-07-25. It took a little over 13 hours to generate the reference profile. While it was being generated, autoyast appeared to be hung. Here is the resulting XML file which exhibits significant duplication: http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/jim/autoinstall-gari.xml.bz2 So presuming that the autoyast XML file works correctly, I should be all set. However, I think that autoyast's statement that "This may take a while" is probably insufficient warning for the length of time it takes to generate these profiles. This machine, gari, has dual Xeon 5140 CPUs, 4 GB of RAM, and a 15k RPM SAS drive so I don't think the hardware is the issue. It would be nice to see a reduction in the time it takes to generate a profile in future versions of opensuse. -- Jim Faulkner / james.faulkner@cs.yale.edu Systems Administrator, Linux Systems Design & Support (LSDS) Yale University Information Technology Services (ITS) =============================================================== NOTE: Yale ITS will NEVER request passwords or other personal information via email. Messages requesting such information are fraudulent and should be deleted. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org