I'll dredge up my original question. Same setup, same errors. y2log attached for NFS/HTTP/FTP installs. I was using the retail i386/x86_64 DVD exploded into a HTTP tree for my source. Since then, I've also tried the GM i386 only DVD. Same results (note, my FTP install attempt was against a public mirror). I'm at my wits end as well. It's got to be something obvious since it works for everyone else. For full details of what the client logs at the time (during AutoYaST failures, and an example of a successful *MANUAL* install against the same source), see the mailing list archive at: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-autoinstall/2006-May/0090.html Lee (been AutoYast'ing since SLES8, searching for a 10.1 clue :/) On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 15:46 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

I can get to the server in a web browser, and I can wget the files that are there, so I don't think its apache, or the server for that matter.

As for what is listed, its the same files that are here: http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/ I tried using that mirror a few days ago, and got the same errors in the y2log (I can only guess as to what errors apache was getting).

You say that those files should exist. Can you point me to a suse mirror that is hosting them? I can't find any mirrors with those files for 10.1. thanks.

On 6/28/06, Matt Gillard wrote:

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All those files should exist - the ones under x86_64 anyway. What do you see under x86_64 ?

Perhaps bad apache config? Bad permissions?

-- Lee Mayes

On Thursday 29 June 2006 01:50, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

I've uploaded my y2log from the most recent failure here: http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/y2log

did you do changes to your initrd? Did you change the ownerships/permissions of /var/tmp and/or /var/adm/mount in the initrd? If not, please do "ls -la /var/tmp" and "ls -la /var/adm/mount" plus "cat /proc/mounts" and post that to the list. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de/~ug

On Thursday 29 June 2006 22:26, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

I assume that you wanted the output from those commands on the target system when yast errors out? ls -la /var/tmp total 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 500 500 80 2006-06-29 06:23 . drwxr-xr-x 11 500 500 240 2006-06-29 06:22 .. drwx------ 2 root root 40 2006-06-29 06:23 TmpDir.x0IK3J drwx------ 2 root root 120 2006-06-29 06:23 TmpDir.xfDvXl

why is the UID 500? Was 500 the user who created the new initrd? That must be uid 0 Please create a new initrd and try again. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de/~ug

On 6/30/06, Uwe Gansert wrote:

On Thursday 29 June 2006 22:26, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

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I assume that you wanted the output from those commands on the target system when yast errors out? ls -la /var/tmp total 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 500 500 80 2006-06-29 06:23 . drwxr-xr-x 11 500 500 240 2006-06-29 06:22 .. drwx------ 2 root root 40 2006-06-29 06:23 TmpDir.x0IK3J drwx------ 2 root root 120 2006-06-29 06:23 TmpDir.xfDvXl

why is the UID 500? Was 500 the user who created the new initrd? That must be uid 0 Please create a new initrd and try again.

UID=500 was the user on my system who edited the initrd. Chowning all of var in the initrd to root does indeed fix the problem I was having. Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, now i'm hitting a new problem at the very end of the installation when it hits "Install boot manager". I get "An error occurred during boot loader installation". In the y2log, I see: External program /usr/lib/YaST2/servers/scr died unexpectedly Storing device map failed Here's the relevant portions of my autoyast.xml: <bootloader> grub <location>mbr</location> </bootloader> <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <use>all</use> <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <mount>/boot</mount> <size>75mb</size> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem> </partition> <partition> <mount>swap</mount> <size>1012mb</size> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> </partition> <partition> <mount>/</mount> <size>max</size> <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning> All of this is the same as my 9.3 and 10.0 autoyast.xml which isn't having this problem. Any suggestions? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@gmail.com LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org

On 7/4/06, Uwe Gansert wrote:

On Saturday 01 July 2006 00:21, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

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Unfortunately, now i'm hitting a new problem at the very end of the installation when it hits "Install boot manager". I get "An error occurred during boot loader installation".

In the y2log, I see: External program /usr/lib/YaST2/servers/scr died unexpectedly Storing device map failed

it looks like there is still something wrong with your software installation. Please send me your y2log File.

Thanks. The log which includes this problem is available at http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/y2log thanks! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@gmail.com LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org

Thanks, that did the trick, and the installation completeed successfully! On 7/5/06, Uwe Gansert wrote:

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 21:13, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

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Thanks. The log which includes this problem is available at http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/y2log

thanks. Try to add <base>default</base> to your software section.

-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@gmail.com LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org