Hello all, I am making my own distribution based on RHEL AS 3U4 (with additional rpms, like urpmi, webmin, nessus, Maildir format by default for Postfix, courier-IMAP etc.) and I would like to have information from the CentOS team. I am generating the isos of this distribution but during the launching of anaconda, the graphic interface failed to work, so the installation in text mode is the only one possible. I think i find the problem: pam. by using pam-0.75-51, all is ok (graphical install of anaconda) but with more recent versions, anaconda refuses to launch the graphical install. Question: had somebody similar problems?? Thank you in advance and good year to all :)
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:57 +0400, security wrote:
Hello all, I am making my own distribution based on RHEL AS 3U4 (with additional rpms, like urpmi, webmin, nessus, Maildir format by default for Postfix, courier-IMAP etc.) and I would like to have information from the CentOS team. I am generating the isos of this distribution but during the launching of anaconda, the graphic interface failed to work, so the installation in text mode is the only one possible. I think i find the problem: pam. by using pam-0.75-51, all is ok (graphical install of anaconda) but with more recent versions, anaconda refuses to launch the graphical install. Question: had somebody similar problems?? Thank you in advance and good year to all :)
Are you using the latest anaconda from RHEL-3 (anaconda-9.1.4.1-1).
We are using pam-0.77-65 with anaconda-10.1.1.3-1 in CentOS-4beta ... I don't know what all you would have to upgrade to make that work with RHEL-3 stuff. Personally, I would stick with what RHEL-3 uses (currently anaconda-9.1.4.1-1 and pam-0.75-62 in CentOS-3.4), so that you can do updates easily when they have security issues.
See this concerning RedHat's backporting policy. Just because a RHEL package is older, it doesn't necessarily mean that it has security issues:
http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:57 +0400, security wrote:
Hello all, I am making my own distribution based on RHEL AS 3U4 (with additional rpms, like urpmi, webmin, nessus, Maildir format by default for Postfix, courier-IMAP etc.) and I would like to have information from the CentOS team. I am generating the isos of this distribution but during the launching of anaconda, the graphic interface failed to work, so the installation in text mode is the only one possible. I think i find the problem: pam. by using pam-0.75-51, all is ok (graphical install of anaconda) but with more recent versions, anaconda refuses to launch the graphical install. Question: had somebody similar problems?? Thank you in advance and good year to all :)
Are you using the latest anaconda from RHEL-3 (anaconda-9.1.4.1-1).
yes :) I have tested with the anaconda from centos (maybe I miss a shared library ?) but the problem is exactly the same ... Strange .... the Graphical install don't want to work.
We are using pam-0.77-65 with anaconda-10.1.1.3-1 in CentOS-4beta ... I don't know what all you would have to upgrade to make that work with RHEL-3 stuff. Personally, I would stick with what RHEL-3 uses (currently anaconda-9.1.4.1-1 and pam-0.75-62 in CentOS-3.4), so that you can do updates easily when they have security issues.
I think the problem is not anaconda after all ... maybe the fact to compile for i686 some packages make the install process don't work correctly?
See this concerning RedHat's backporting policy. Just because a RHEL package is older, it doesn't necessarily mean that it has security issues:
I know :) but this issue is ... unexplainable I will try to recompile some rpms like util-linux for i386, not for i686 :-/
Thanks for your help :)
Regards
The end of the story:
After recompiling some "base packages" like lvm, util-linux and modutils, Anaconda works fine ... Maybe a gcc bug when building for i686 .... or a strange anaconda behavior ...
Regards
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