24/01/2011 14:27 -0600, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> > On Jan 24, 2011, at 19:34 , Troy Dawson wrote:
> > 
> >> Troy J Dawson wrote:
> >>> Elena Korytko wrote:
> >>>> В Пнд, 24/01/2011 в 11:45 -0600, Troy Dawson пишет:
> >>>>> Elena Korytko wrote:
> >>>>>> When the additional repository "Scientific Linux 6 - i386 - security
> >>>>>> updates" selected, installation crashes on package dbus (screenshot
> >>>>>> attached). With other repositories from list installation is successful.
> >> Nevermind, I got it to fail for me.  But only for the DVD.  But
> that let's me investigate it better.
> >> If anyone has a solution, please let me know, because I'm not
> seeing anything on the console screens out of the ordinary, and I've
> checked that the dbus package on the DVD is the same as the network.
> > 
> > Just as a data point, we have run a number of SL6 Beta1 network
> installs (using kickstart) from our local mirror, with 100% success.
> We use an additional repo with updates, but it holds cherry-picked
> packages packages only and the metadata is created locally (on an SL5
> host).
> > 
> 
> Ok, I believe I have found the problem.  Not a solution, but the real 
> problem.
> 
> The order that the packages get installed changes when you have a 2 DVD 
> set with the updates (and possibly fastbugs) repo selected during the 
> install.  This is due to some packages being on DVD 2.
> 
> If you look at the install log failing install (/root/install.log on a 
> installed machine, /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log on a machine being 
> installed) you see that dbus fails on %pre, which is where it is adding 
> the users and groups that it needs to install.
> But if you continue to look at that install log, you will notice that 
> over half of the other packages failed with their %post install scripts. 
>   So, you're machine would be pretty messed up even if the install finished.

Seems like, incorrect order of packages is a root of problem -- for
example, glibc is not installed before dbus packages installation. When
we try install such packages by hands in a shell VT, we get a message
about it.

> As I said, I found the real problem, not the solution.
> 
> For now, we'll just say that if you are installing via DVD, to not 
> select the updates or fastbugs repositories.
> 
> Troy

--Oleg