Brian,

I'm not sure what is wrong with your script, but you can get access to a shell window during any of the three script environments (pre, chroot, post) by putting the following line at the top of your script:

exec /bin/bash -x

This pauses the autoinstall dead in its tracks until you kill the shell...

Even though I have not figured out yet how to interact with *that* shell when it starts, what you *can* do is hit ctl-alt-F2 to get to a shell that's already running on ttyN. From there, you can run each of your commands manually and find out what's wrong.

Hope that helps.

-- Charlie

-----Original Message----- From: Brian Corriveau [mailto:bcorriveau@cray.com] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 5:25 PM To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] SCR problem

How do I run this from the bash shell?

(from clients/inst_finish.ycp) SCR::Write (.target.string, "/var/lib/YaST2/runme_at_boot", "")

I want to try running this manually so I can understand why it is failing during autoinstallation. This is failing for my target, as are a couple other SCR commands. I can run the command from a chroot post-script to get the help output with: chroot /mnt /usr/lib/YaST2/servers/scr -h

So the command seems to run somewhat, but for the runme_at_boot creation I get the Y2log error:

2004-12-18 02:34:13 <0> linux(3172) [liby2] Y2ProgramComponent.cc(launchExternall Program):292 Going to execute /usr/lib/YaST2/servers/scr with chroot /mnt 2004-12-18 02:34:13 <0> linux(519) [libycp] Scanner.cc(Scanner):107 Scanner settting builtinTable to 0x507d10 2004-12-18 02:34:13 <0> linux(519) [libycp] Scanner.cc(initTables):146 m_globalTT able 0x1776bb0 2004-12-18 02:34:13 <0> linux(519) [libycp] Scanner.cc(initTables):158 m_localTaable 0x52fd60 2004-12-18 02:34:13 <0> linux(519) [libycp] parser.yy(yyparse):284 ------------------------------------------- accept ------------------------------ -------------- 2004-12-18 02:34:13 <0> linux(519) [liby2] Y2ProgramComponent.cc(sendToExternal)) :377 Error writing to external program /usr/lib/YaST2/servers/scr: Couldn't sendd (`Write (.target.string, "/var/lib/YaST2/runme_at_boot", "")) (Broken pipe) 2004-12-18 02:34:13 <3> linux(519) [liby2] Y2ProgramComponent.cc(receiveFromExtee rnal):343 External program /usr/lib/YaST2/servers/scr died unexpectedly 2004-12-18 02:34:13 <3> linux(519) [Interpreter] scr:240 SCR::Write() did not reeturn a boolean

So I'd like to understand what is wrong with my target's environment that this would fail.

thanks, Brian