On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Katarina Machalkova wrote:

Hmm, anything interesting in the logs? What does tail of /var/log/YaST2/y2log show when it hangs? Isn't there any other process accessing libzypp (pkg management library) at the same time, holding an exclusive lock? (e.g. updater applet ...). Anyway, y2logs will be really helpful here.

No, I don't think there would be any other programs holding a lock. My testing machine is at runlevel 3, so X is not running at all. However, as I stated in my message earlier today, when I left it running overnight, I was able to successfully generate a reference profile. The logs are very confusingly timestamped. At some point y2log was rotated, however its difficult to tell when. I don't know if y2log is timestamped in the local time zone (which is EDT), UTC, or something else. There are also strange gaps in the logs. I started the run of autoyast at about 16:50 EDT, however there are no log entries between 15:42 and 19:41, which is precisely where the rotated y2log-1 ends and the current y2log begins. I don't know if some data was lost in the log rotating process, but I am sure that I started creating the reference profile at about 16:50 EDT, because the machine was rebooted at 16:43. I believe that the reference profile finished generating at timestamp 2009-07-23 21:17:42 in y2log. The timestamps that follow that (2009-07-24 11:03:28) are accurate for EDT because that's when I got in and saved the reference profile. Here is the rotated log: http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/jim/y2log-1.bz2 here is the current log: http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/jim/y2log.bz2 The generated reference profile is also pretty strange. There are many duplicate packages and patterns in the <software> section. Here's some sample lines from the file: <pattern>yast2_install_wf</pattern> <pattern>yast2_install_wf</pattern> <pattern>yast2_install_wf</pattern> <pattern>yast2_install_wf</pattern> </patterns> <remove-packages config:type="list"> <package>AdobeICCProfiles</package> <package>AdobeICCProfiles</package> <package>AdobeICCProfiles</package> <package>AdobeICCProfiles</package> <package>ConsoleKit-32bit</package> The full generated profile is here: http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/jim/drupal-autoyast.xml.bz2 Despite the fact that I was able to generate a reference profile, I'll probably need some additional assistance. I generated the profile on a testing machine with standard patterns installed, the machine I really need the reference profile for has many more packages installed (close to all available packages on the retail DVD). I had thought that I left autoyast running on that machine overnight as well, however when I save the profile on that machine, it basically empty, only 258 bytes. I'll start a run of autoyast on it and follow up with more info. -- 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

Hi, Jim

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.

I suspect you're hitting this issue (the second one of those, to be precise): ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Feb 9 11:19:44 CET 2009 - ug@suse.de - shell escape added for the password for encrypted profiles - speed up software cloning with many repositories - clean up - 2.18.0 I thought the fix went out as online update for openSUSE 11.1, but I can't seem to find it among released patches :( So the solution now seems to be using autoyast2 package from openSUSE Factory ... hB. -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Uwe Gansert wrote:

you say "out of the box" but I ask anyway. Do you have a lot of repositories added to your installation? then please deactivate them and try again. There was a bug when you have a lot of (lets say 10 or so) repositories.

No, I did not add or change any repositories. I do use an out of the ordinary installation method, however, I'm not sure if that would affect the available repositories. I purchased the boxed version of opensuse, copied the contents of the DVD to an FTP server, and did a network install from that FTP server. I just checked the available repositories, and it does have my FTP server in there as an additional repository. However, that only makes it 6 repositories in total (opensuse-11.1-update, opensuse-11.1-debug, opensuse-11.1-non-oss, opensuse-11.1-oss, opensuse-11.1-source, and my FTP server), and only 4 of them are enabled (opensuse-11.1-update, opensuse-11.1-non-oss, opensuse-11.1-oss, and my FTP server). I may have complained too soon however. I left autoyast running overnight on a testing machine, and it was able to successfully complete generation of a reference profile. Judging from the logs, it took about 5 or 6 hours to complete. I'll follow up shortly with the logs that Katarina requested. -- 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