Stuck at NFS root boot in F9

[Warren Togami]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 11:20 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
>> I figured out that this problem is being caused by a missing package in 
>> the chroot because LTSP tries to be as minimal as possible.
>>
>> Eric Harrison figured out that it was event-compat-sysv.
> 
> That did it!
> 
>> Is it a bug that nothing in the base system has a dependency on 
>> event-compat-sysv?  Relying on comps groups alone isn't entirely robust. 
>>   This seems to be also how some F8 to F9 upgrade failures are getting 
>> stuck during boot as well.
> 
> Seems like a bug to me. This breaks yum upgrades.
> 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442291
Yeah, it seems nothing requires event-compat-sysv.  I requested that we 
add a dependency on it for Fedora 9.  We should keep that dependency at 
least until we no longer need it (and the OS actually boots without it).

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com