Fwd: [opensuse-autoinstall] YaST crashes when adding "partition" to "dont_merge" section in rules.xml

8 Aug 2011

      The actual error message reads
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YaST got signal 11 at YCP file Profile.ycp:88
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Note that it does not matter if there is a partitioning section in the 
XMl file that gets merged with this rule. The crash is solely triggered 
by adding the "partition" element to the "dont_merge" part of the rules.xml.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [opensuse-autoinstall] YaST crashes when adding "partition" to 
"dont_merge" section in rules.xml
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 13:01:52 +0200
From: Joschi Brauchle <joschi.brauchle@tum.de>
To: opensuse-autoinstall@opensuse.org <opensuse-autoinstall@opensuse.org>

Hi everyone,

I wanted to customize the partitioning for a specific node type of my
auto installation, thus I added
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      <rule>      <!-- Custom machine -->
          <custom1>
              <script>
		<!-- script to match machine type -->
              </script>
              <match><!-- match string --></match>
              <match_type>regex</match_type>
          </custom1>
          <result>
              <profile><!-- profile name --></profile>
              <continue config:type="boolean">true</continue>
              <dont_merge config:type="list">
                  <element><!-- some elements--></element>
                  <element><!-- some elements--></element>
                  <element><!-- some elements--></element>
                  <element>partition</element>
              </dont_merge>
          </result>
      </rule>
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to my rules/rules.xml.

YaST crashes at the beginning of the installation when reading/merging
the profiles as soon as I added the "partition" element to the
"dont_merge" section. If I remove it, the installation runs fine.

The error message is something like (I took video and noted this down):
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error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
YaST got signal 11 at YCP file Profile.ycp:86
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST.call: line 284: 3549 Segmentation fault
(core dumped) $OPT_FBITERM y2base "$Y2_MODULE_NAME" "Y2_MODE_FLAGS
$Y2_MODULE_ARGS $Y2_MODE $Y2_UI_ARGS
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Is there any known problem/workaround?
Best regards,

Dipl.-Ing. Joschi Brauchle, M.Sc.

Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT)
Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM)
80290 Munich, Germany

Tel (work): +49 89 289-23474
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