On Dec 11, 2007 9:46 AM, Alfred von Campe alfred@von-campe.com wrote:
I stumbled across this issue because I requested to install the sysreport package in my kickstart file. Anaconda complains that such a package doesn't exist. There is a bug report about this already (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2492), but it's certainly a strange situation.
Anaconda doesn't think the package sysreport exists
yum thinks it exists: # yum list sysreport Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Available Packages sysreport.noarch 1.4.3-13.el5 base
But installing with yum fails: # yum install sysreport Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Package sos - 1.7-9.1.el5.noarch already installed and
latest version Nothing to do
- The sysreport file from the sos package fails to run: # sysreport Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/sysreport", line 31, in ? import sos.policyredhat ImportError: No module named sos.policyredhat
Hmmm something else is 'borked' on the system. Here it is on a 5.1 updated system:
[root@nausicaa ~]# sysreport
WARNING: sysreport is deprecated, please use sosreport instead.
sosreport (version 1.7)
This utility will collect some detailed information about the hardware and setup of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system. The information is collected and an archive is packaged under /tmp, which you can send to a support representative. Red Hat will use this information for diagnostic purposes ONLY and it will be considered confidential information.
I do see a bug above...
- But if you extract /usr/sbin/sysreport from the sysreport
package using rpm2cpio for instance, it works just fine.
So it would be nice if yum would allow installing the sysreport package (see step 3 above) as that would appear to solve all the problems.
Alfred
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