RHEL 4.2 Anaconda problems

Tue Dec 20 00:22:15 UTC 2005

Both my custom package and KSH were freshly built on RHEL 4.2 machine
and their file names were not modified.

Do I even need to run genhdlist?

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Steden
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 6:06 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: RHEL 4.2 Anaconda problems

>    Hi,
> 
>    
> 
>    I am getting a segfault error message on the F4 screen of the RHEL
4.2
>    AMD64 installer.  Other than that I do not see any other errors.
It just
>    bombs out and waits for user input to reboot.  The following is a
list of
>    modifications:
> 
>    
> 
>     1. Created DVD-based installation disk with kickstart-based
install
>        script.  This works without modifications below.
>     2. Added two packages.  One custom package and KSH package taken
from
>        Fedora Core 4.
>     3. Executed genhdlist.
> 
>    
> 
>    Is the procedure for adding packages different for RHEL 4.2 than
RHEL
>    2.1?  I noticed this version of RHEL comes with pdksh package,
which could
>    conflict with the new ksh package; however, the installation bombs
out
>    without the ksh package too.
> 
>    
> 
>    I think perhaps the genhdlist is not working well or there is
something
>    else I have to do.  Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
Hello Chris,

I've run into something like this before ... make sure the packages you
add
have filenames consistent with their internal package names. Anaconda
isn't
smart enough to tell that 'foo.rpm' and 'foo-1.2rc.rpm' are the same
thing.

gedhdlist spits out a ton of stuff while it operates, so make sure it
doesn't
yield any critical errors. A script posted here may also be useful:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaGenHdList

hth,
Klaus

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