[RULE] Slinky for Red Hat Linux 9

[Santos, Luis-Rodrigues]

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> From:	Michael Fratoni [SMTP:mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 17, 2003 12:47 PM
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> Subject:	Re: [RULE] Slinky for Red Hat Linux 9
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>On Thursday 17 April 2003 02:31 am, Santos, Luis-Rodrigues wrote:

>> I've tested Slinky-v0.3.7 from CD iso image and from the floopies with
>> RH 7.2 and I was unable to boot.

>You couldn't boot the installer, or the system didn't boot after 
>installation? I'm assuming the installer booted, but after installation, 
>the system didn't boot.

The installer booted, the instalation no.


>> The problem is originated on the rpm package that is version 4.1 in
>> slinky-v0.3.7. and RH 7.2  brings version 4.0.3-1. I copied the rpm.gz
>> from v0.3.6 floppy to the v.0.3.7 floopy and the installation went
>> without errors and booting was ok too.


>> Now a kind of report on the problem:
>>
>> - when decompressing the packages after the rpm package it gave errors
>> on all the packages.

>> #   part of install_log ( I have the complete file if someone is
>> interested )

>Yes, please send me the complete log (offlist is fine), if you could.

I'm sending it offlist

>> warning: /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/glibc-common-2.2.4-13.i386.rpm: V3 DSA
>> signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e

>These are just warnings that rpm couldn't verify the package signature. 
>rpm-4.0.x expects the signatures to be found in root's gpg keyring. 
>rpm 4.1.x began importing the keys directly into rpm's database, using the 
>- --import flag to rpm.

>In both cases, the installer lacks the ability to verify sigs during 
>installation. In the first case, it's because gpg isn't available during 
>installation. In the second, I'm not sure at the moment. The installer 
>does import the Red Hat GPG key, but still doesn't verify the packages. I 
>need to look into it more. I'm considering telling rpm not to check the 
>package signatures during installation to avoid these warnings.

I'll try to do this if I can

>> - and when rebooting it gave the following error:
>>
>>     No inittab file found
>>     enter runlevel:
>>
>> - after entering any runlevel:
>>
>>     Init: no more processes left in this runlevel

>It looks as though the initscripts package wasn't installed (or failed).

yes, on the second trial, with floppies, I've seen that after the rpm
package everything fails and on the package_list initscripts is after rpm.

>> - I've tried going to tty2 and editing the file base_packages in
>> /root/scripts/7.2 just before the script decompresses the rpm.gz and
>> deleted the rpm-4... line in order to the rpm package won't be
>> decompressed and maintain the original.
>>
>>     - the installation went without errors but after booting, at the
>> login I've never got a password prompt, just the login: prompt and in
>> the booting sequence I had the error:
>>
>>     dmesg: command not found

>If you have the install log from the failed install, I'd like to have a 
>look at it. it appears several packages didn't install properly. Possibly 
>all packages after the rpm package failed?

This I don't have but I'm going to try again this weekend...

>> - Finally, the solution was copying the rpm.gz from the 0.3.6 floppy to
>> the 0.3.7 floppy and  all went well, bringing me to the conclusion that
>> the problem is really the rpm version.

>I don't doubt it, and I'm not really surprised. ;)
>Possible solutions include having 2 versions of disk2 available (which is 
>fairly simple), or dropping support for the older releases as we go 
>forward. I can't go back to the 0.3.6 disk2 in all cases, because it 
>can't install Red Hat 9.

I can and I'm happy to try installations with RH 7.2.

>If you can send me the install logs, it would be helpful. In any case, 
>I'll look into this more myself as well. 

>Thank you for the feedback!

Thank *you* for your work,it's the least I can do.

>- -- 
>- -Michael

Best regards

Luis Santos


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