-----Original Message----- From: Anas Nashif [mailto:nashif@suse.de] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:30 PM To: Ryan Allen Cc: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] RPM packages fail

did you run create_package_descr with the -x option pointing to setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV ?

Anas

Ryan Allen wrote:

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Hi list!

I've gotten a CD to boot and launch the install process with SuSE

9.2.

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From some reason however, many important RPMs are failing with the following errors:

Installation of package kernel-default-2.6.8-24.i586 failed

ERROR(InstTarget:E_RpmDB_subprocess_failed)

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...... <some successful rpm's> ......

rpm output:

error: %pre(kernel-default-2.5.8-24) scriptlet failed, exit status 255

error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping kernel-default-2.5.8-24

So, for troubleshooting I hit "ignore", and it kept on going. Seems that about every 10 packages or so, I get the same error but for

thank you, this solved it. I had run the utility in the past, but for some reason, the file setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV was missing. When create_package_descr ran, it just produced a quick warning, and worked to completion anyhow. Thanks for the support! - Ryan the

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current rpm.

Anybody know what this means?

Thanks,

Ryan