AutoYast2 Problems in 8.2

10 Apr 2003

      Hi,

i used AutoYast2 for Installation of a couple of 8.1 boxes (cloned)
and was satisfied with its operation, despite the lack of some
documentation i managed to figure out myself and partly fixed with
postinstall-scripts.

Now - in 8.2 - if found one thing that isn't working anymore. Services
i want to be enabled and started in some runlevels (runlevel-Editor)
do not get enabled anymore, e.g. i have an autoinst.xml that states
that apache should get started in runlevel 3 and 5 - but on the target
system, its still disabled, no symlinks to the rc-Directories have
been created. This is how the runlevel-section generated by
Autoinstall looks like:

-8<---snip---
    <runlevels>
      <default>5</default>
      <services config:type="list">
        <service>
          <service_name>apache</service_name>
          <service_start>3 5</service_start>
        </service>
        <service>
          <service_name>lpd</service_name>
          <service_start>3 5</service_start>
        </service>
        <service>
          <service_name>nmb</service_name>
          <service_start>3 5</service_start>
        </service>
        <service>
          <service_name>smb</service_name>
          <service_start>3 5</service_start>
        </service>
        <service>
          <service_name>smbfs</service_name>
        </service>
      </services>
    </runlevels>
-8<---snip---

Interesting enough, smbfs, which i never need, gets disabled, which is
enabled by default after a fresh installation ... Anybody got any
idea?

BTW, a small problem also occurs with the hardware-clock setting. Even
if you configure the autoinst.xml for "clock in localtime", the
installation of the clone still defaults to UTC. Anyway - this can be
corrected in the cloned system by using the sysconfig-Editor to
generate the following setting:

-8<---snip---
    <sysconfig config:type="list">
      <sysconfig_entry>
        <sysconfig_key>HWCLOCK</sysconfig_key>
        <sysconfig_path>/etc/sysconfig/clock</sysconfig_path>
        <sysconfig_value>--localtime</sysconfig_value>
      </sysconfig_entry>
    </sysconfig>
-8<---snip---

Also - it is reasonable to delete the kernel of the master system from
which you clone from the list of installed packages (in most cases
k_dflt) as the cloned system being installed automatically chooses the
appropiate kernel, which can be - as in my case - k_smp, which leads
you to two installed kernels and a complaining package manager.

But anyway - i like the enhancements in the new version - but i don't
like the bugs ;-)

Greetings
Wolfgang

AutoYast2 Problems in 8.2

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