Jon,

If you can do this again and send me the /tmp/anaconda.log when it 
fails.

-connie sieh

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Jon Peatfield wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:
>
>> Please test the following release.  It now includes a DVD iso image.  There 
>> will be cd iso images tomorrow.
>> 
> <snip>
>
> I was just about to try the previous version but since this is now
> available :-)
>
> Having rsync'd over a copy and added the trivial entry to my pxe setup:
>
> label sl5rm
>  kernel sl/5rolling/i386/vmlinuz
>  append initrd=sl/5rolling/i386/initrd.img \
>  method=nfs:instserv.damtp.cam.ac.uk:/inst/linux/sl/upstream/5rolling/i386/ 
> ip=dhcp
>
> I successfully started the installer.  In fact I got quite carried away and 
> spent some time picking the exact disk layout and exactly which packages to 
> install -- I'd planned to extract the list from the anaconda-ks.cfg it makes 
> for later reference...
>
> It went off did various things to check dependencies (that message came up 
> twice), and created the new fs, then said it was doing something about 
> transactions being prepared 'this may take several minutes' (the usual 
> message I think), and then errored saying that the transaction had failed 
> with error(s):  (nothing), and tells me to reboot.
>
> At the shell on VC2 I couldn't see any obvious errors left in files nor any 
> reason for the failure.  Didn't anaconda used to be a bit more chatty about 
> errors -- it used to offer a python traceback which at least let one see 
> which piece of code was crashing...
>
> So I did it again and got the same results.  Trying a 3rd time but not 
> altering the set of packages to be installed worked.
>
> I then foolishly picked some packages to install with yum and it is busy 
> downloading them all from your repo, which looks like it might take several 
> hours (an excuse to go home).  I must remember to add a local repo entry 
> before doing that in future.
>
> btw /etc/yum.repos.d/sl.repo has an obvious typo in it:
>
>  name=SL 4 base
>
> I've not checked yet but can $releasever be used here as well as in the 
> baseurl info?
>
> I'll try some of this again tomorrow with slightly fresher eyes.
>
> -- Jon
>