yum in kickstart %post and HP Insight Mgr

[Philip Rowlands]

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Brian Long wrote:

>I'm trying to use yum in the %post section of kickstart.  With well-
>written RPMs, this works great.  However, I've come across the lovely HP
>Insight Manager RPMS (hpasm, hprsm, etc) which seem to run "service
>hpasm start" during the RPM postinstall (yuck).  This wouldn't be too
>bad if the daemons actually disassociated from the running terminal.

Don't let it have them:

%post
yum groupinstall Insight-Manager < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1

>I notice yum install the group "yum groupinstall Insight-Manager" and
>yum exits, but the rest of the kickstart %post doesn't run.  If I look
>at the hpasmd processes, they're tied to tty1 and owned by init  :(  If
>I hit Alt-F2 in kickstart and chroot /mnt/sysimage, service hpasm stop,
>the rest of the kickstart %post finishes.  I also strace'd the /tmp/ks-
>script process and it's stuck at waitpid(-1, )

If that doesn't work, then lay a trap:

%post
( while ! killall -q hpasm; do sleep 3; done & )
yum groupinstall Insight-Manager


Hope at least one of these works... :)


Cheers,
Phil