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We just had to install a couple of SL 6.1 machines (due to collaboration
dependency on this version) and strangely found that the installation
would bomb every time with an anaconda error when trying to parse
/tmp/.treeinfo. The file contains the following contents:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>300 Multiple Choices</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Multiple Choices</h1>
The document name you requested (<code>/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/updates/security//.treeinfo</code>) could not be found on this server.
However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested.<p>Available documents:
<ul>
<li><a href="/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/updates/security//.">/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/updates/security//.</a> (common basename)
<li><a href="/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/updates/security//..">/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/updates/security//..</a> (common basename)
</ul>
</body></html>
This is curious because we are installing from a local copy of the 6.1 repo, our
kickstart file hasn't changed in a long time, worked ok when last used earlier
this year, etc.
To cut a long story short I eventually found this at
scientificlinuxforum.org:
http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=2302
it was suggested there that someone post this to the SL lists but I
don't see any sign that happened. Their workaround of a dummy hosts
entry for ftp.scientificlinux.org does let the install succeed, but I
imagine that either putting the file back into place, or disabling the
"helpful" response from the server in favor of a plain 404 response,
should help?
Although I'm curious why anaconda is attempting to download a file from
ftp.scientificlinux.org when all the declared sources are local - some
oversight in the installer build?
The same problem afflicts SL 6.0, btw.
Thanks,
Graham
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Graham Allan
School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota
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