Kickstart hangs when removing sendmail

[Chris Mckenzie]

So I sort of solved it last week. This is an FYI I suppose.
 
Nothing worked, kickstart -sendmail, rpm -e sendmail, etc... I had to
actually start sendmail, then kill -killall sendmail, THEN rpm -e sendmail.
It's a tatoo, and I just sanded it off.
 
This is followed with the existing Postfix install with support for
Postgres.
 
Thanks for the suggestions.
 
- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chris Mckenzie
Sent: January 31, 2005 2:59 PM
To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'
Subject: RE: Kickstart hangs when removing sendmail



Thanks for the suggestions guys. We're not installing the RH Postfix. We're
using PostgreSQL not MySQL and the Postfix that ships with RH doesn't
include support for Postgres.

I'm installing Postfix with Postgres support as part of the kickstart %post.


My problem is no matter what I try I can't not install sendmail when stick
strictly to the %packages portion of the kickstart.

%packages --resolvedeps 
gcc 
make 
openssh 
openssh-clients 
openssh-server 
patch 
perl 
perl-CGI 
perl-DBI 
perl-HTML-Parser 
perl-libwww-perl 
perl-URI 
openssl 
openssl-perl 
rdate 
rpm-build 
rpmdb-redhat 
sharutils 
sudo 
telnet 
unzip 
wget 
up2date 
eject 
-sendmail 

I know I set --resolvedeps, so something in there wants it (or maybe
Anaconda itself simply wants it) 

If I try ot remove it from %post, it sometimes never returns... 

rpm -e sendmail --nodeps 

Note the --nodeps, so I don't get the dependancy errors. Once Postfix is
installed, those complaints don't mean a thing, it just works as expected.

So I tried the following trickery... 

  RETURN=`rpm -e sendmail --nodeps& 2>&1 > /dev/null` 
  ilimit=60 
  isleep=1 
  for ((i=0 ; i < ilimit ; i++)); do 
    RETURN=`rpm -q sendmail | grep "not installed"` 
    if [ "$RETURN" ]; then 
      # Sendmail has finally been removed... 
      echo "   -> Sendmail has been removed" 
      break 
    fi 
  done 

Haven't had time to test it yet, but the idea is if `rpm -e sendmail` never
retrurns sometimes, I might as well spawn it as a background process and
watch the `rpm -q sendmail` for the removal itself. (I noticed that when I
get the hang, a reboot and login shows sendmail not installed)

Very frustrating, but I wouldn't care so much if Postfix didn't' need
sendmail removed. (their docs claim so, and our testing indiciated some
incompatibiltiies)

Thanks again for the help. 

- Chris 

-----Original Message----- 
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
<mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com> ] On Behalf Of Edgar Chillón
'Chillux' 
Sent: January 28, 2005 12:32 PM 
To: Discussion list about Kickstart 
Subject: Re: Kickstart hangs when removing sendmail 


I dont remember if postfix requires a sendmail as a 
dependency but if not here is the solution: 

In the ks.cfg in the package system: 
@ Base 
-mdam 
-sendmail 

In the %post 
rpm -ihv postfix 

If the postfix needs dependencys obviusly you have to 
install it fist. 

Regards 

 --- Chris Mckenzie <Chris.McKenzie at entrust.com> 
escribió: 
> Hi all. 
> 
> My kickstart occasionally hangs indefinitely 
> intermittedly when from my 
> %post I call: 
> 
>       rpm -e sendmail 
> 
> I subsequently install Postfix, and I absolutely 
> require Sendmail removed 
> before hand. 
> 
> It's inexplicable. Rpm never returns, the %post just 
> sits there. 
> 
> Any ideas? I can't pipe STDERR, and the damn thing 
> never returns. When I do 
> get the hang, I'm already on TTY3, and none of the 
> other TTYs offer any 
> clues. 
> 
> Thanks!!! 
> 
> - Chris 
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