Alfred von Campe wrote:
On May 14, 2009, at 23:36, nate wrote:
hmm, is your package selection particularly complex? In my case I list hundreds of packages in my %packages section I don't have groups and stuff. I assume your using a stock CentOS install and you didn't put any of your own 3rd party rpms in the installation and update the comps.xml(?) file to include them?
No, it's not very complex (see below). I use a stock CentOS install for kickstart, but I do install some packages from the RPMforge repo during the post installation phase. I've been using this package list for years with some minor modifications:
%packages @ admin-tools @ authoring-and-publishing @ base @ base-x @ development-tools @ editors @ emacs @ engineering-and-scientific @ games @ gnome-desktop @ gnome-software-development @ graphical-internet @ graphics @ kde-desktop @ kde-software-development @ legacy-software-development @ office @ printing @ server-cfg @ smb-server @ sound-and-video @ system-tools @ text-internet @ web-server @ x-software-development -dmraid -yum-updatesd boost boost-devel dejagnu ElectricFence foomatic expect minicom mkisofs ncurses-devel openmotif system-config-boot system-config-kickstart system-switch-mail system-switch-mail-gnome vim-X11 wireshark-gnome
I'm not sure what to suggest..if your packages selection is complex try simplifying it. I believe what is going on during that stage is it's calculating all of the dependencies and stuff.
I've tried removing a few things from the package list, but it still hung. Maybe I'll check the list archives for how to do a minimal install and try that, and then manually add all the remaining packages I need to see if that fixes the problem.
Alfred
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Hi,
I haven't read all of this thread, but if you are seeing that your installs start but hangs when installing a particular RPM then I have seen this in 5.{1,2,3}. In my particular case I have noticed that it generally seems to be larger RPMS such as the CentOS Openoffice RPMS on machines with a small amount of RAM.
Removing the RPMS that your system gets stuck on can be painful to work out but at the very least I would recommend that you remove any custom RPMS you have created and then the Open Office ones.
Installing these RPMS in the Post-install section seems to work fine.
I hope this helps :)
Good Luck