On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Anas Nashif wrote:

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:34:04 -0400 From: Anas Nashif To: Bruno Cornec Cc: suse-autoinstall@suse.com, jean-charles.ripault@hp.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Re: Error while configuring software selections on SLES 8 SP3 ia64

Bruno Cornec wrote:

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Hello,

After reading tons of documents and passing more than 2 days on that problem, I think I need some help ;-) The target is to deploy 50+ rx2600 HP ia64 servers, and I'd prefer not doing that by hand ;-)

Any hint, pointer would be greatly appreciated. Bruno.

Problem description: ===================

Autoyast doesn't validate our package selection stating that the "default" selection is incorrect.

This means something is wrong with your installation source setup.

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Details: ========

When autoyast tries to analyse the autoyast.xml file that he gets from the deployment servers, it aborts at the "configure software" step issuing the following message:

Error Error while configuring software selections Please try again ! [OK]

The autoyast.xml generated by the SUSE tool doesn't work from scratch.

I've attached all the relevant files I found on both the server and the client in order to help for the debug. If you'd like to have other missing files, please ask !

My setup follows what is described here: 1. http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/faq.html 2. http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/sles8/html/x910.html 3. http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/multiplesource.html

Especially I put the driverupdqte file in my root dir I also used the sp3 kernel and initrd in my elilo configuration.

The problem I see is around the order and instorder files:

order:

/sp3/CD1 /sp3/CD1 /sles/CD1 /sles/CD1 /ul/CD1 /ul/CD1

instorder:

/ul/CD1 /ul/CD1 /sles/CD1 /sles/CD1 /sp3/CD1 /sp3/CD1

once column is the right thing, I still have to update it in all docs, but this should not be the cause of the problem.

Something is not right with the directories although your description below looks OK.

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[Don't know why n the same doc it has once 2 columns and another time only one]

and that part of autoyast.xml

<software> <addons config:type="list"/> <base>default</base> <packages config:type="list"> [...] </packages> </software>

this is Ok.

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The documentation in 3. isn't for me sufficiently detailed and I do not understand really what these 2 files do.

I suspect that autoyast doesn't find the correct default.sel at the right place, even if the log shows that it's loaded:

[Note: we created files packages.en_US from packages.en in all directories as it was missing, and changing language to en alone raised other issues]

The logs show a bug that is known with SLES8 GA which was fixed with SP3. The driverupdate is featched correctly though. Can you verify that a directory named /y2update/modules does exist on the client during installation?

Not directly related to the problem you are having but this may be your next problem: You may have to force autoyast to use the megaraid2 module on SP3 and you have to use the SP3 boot disk on this box rather then just megaraid. I had to do that on the big brother of this box, the rx5670. On pre SP3 installation it would use the megaraid module but as soon as you upgraded to SP3 it would not boot unless you changed the initrd to use megaraid2. Regards Hubba