[Fedora-livecd-list] getting Xorg to install from kickstart, and bug 185830

[Jane Dogalt]

--- Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 18:16 -0800, Jane Dogalt wrote:
> > First, I filed bug 185830, in which I was running kadischi, and while it
> was
> > invoking anaconda, it *reconfigured my network*!!!.
> 
> This definitely shouldn't be happening.  From a quick look at the
> relevant anaconda code, we should only be changing things under the
> instroot.  I'll try to look more tomorrow when I'm at the office

Thanks.  FYI, I just verified skunk's bug that the system's timezone gets
reconfigured as well to whatever was in your kickstart file.  From what you
said, and I snipped, both of these are bugs relating to the assumption that
anaconda --rootpath will only touch files under the rootpath (and not
destructively mess with hardware).

Also, on this latest run, now that I figured out where my anaconda log is, I
tailed it on a remote machine via ssh.  Here is what the output looked like
when it hung due to the ip address changing- (I'll add these to the buglog)

terminal output-

Installing xorg-x11-drv-calcomp-1.0.0.5-1.2...  Done [466/479]
Installing xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion-1.3.1.5-1.1...  Done [467/479]
Installing xorg-x11-drv-v4l-0.0.1.5-1.1...  Done [468/479]
Installing xorg-

/tmp/anaconda.log (note the timezone change as I went from central to pacific)

06:50:41 INFO    : moving (1) to step enablefilesystems
06:50:41 INFO    : moving (1) to step migratefilesystems
06:50:41 INFO    : moving (1) to step setuptime
04:50:41 INFO    : moving (1) to step preinstallconfig
04:50:41 INFO    : moving (1) to step installpackages
04:50:41 INFO    : Preparing to install packages








 
> 
> > In a possibly related fashion, I can't seem to get X installed on my
> livecd. 
> > Everything other than the xserver itself (libX11-bla, gnome, openoffice)
> > installed, but not X itself.  Even when my xconfig line in my kickstart
> matched
> > the build host system (which I think it shouldn't have to), X didn't get
> > installed.
> 
> Did you have anything selected that would pull in xorg-x11-server-Xorg,
> either via a group or explicitly listing it in your %packages?
> 

All I had under backages was @base, and @office, which came from my fc5t3
default install's /root/anaconda-ks.cfg.  I expected that since it had the
xserver installed, that it's ks.cfg would get it installed.  I'm rerunning now
explicitly adding the package you mentioned.  And since my package count went
up from 404 to 479, I'm optomistic :)

-jdog

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