[CentOS] 4.4 kickstart issues

[Steve Finley]

FYI, I have a working CentOS4.4 kickstart CD.  The issue, as can clearly 
be seen from
the install.log, was that I wasn't including 
audit-libs-1.0.14-1.EL4.i386.rpm in my
list of rpm's (OK, maybe not too clear - since I had to figure out which 
package libaudit.so.0
was in).

The moral of the story is that install.log is your friend when you're 
fine tuning your
kickstart build.

Steve Finley

Steve Finley wrote:
> Johnny,
>
> Thanks for responding.  My bad - I have a typo in my original post.  I 
> show
>
> initscripts-7.39.25.EL-1.centos4
>
>
> ..it actually is initscripts-7-93.25.EL-1.centos4
>
> As you point out:
> "7.93.25.EL is >= 7.93.14.EL"
> and I expected this to be fine too.  I guess I misinterpreted the 
> output from pkgorder:
>
> warning: removing initscripts-7.93.25.EL-1.centos4 "Requires: 
> /sbin/nash" from tsort relations.
> warning:     initscripts-7.93.25.EL-1.centos4         Requires: 
> /sbin/nash
> warning:     mkinitrd-4.2.1.8-1                       PreReq: dev
> warning:     udev-039-10.15.EL4                       PreReq: hotplug
> warning: removing hotplug-2004_04_01-7.7 "Requires: initscripts >= 
> 7.93.14.EL" from tsort relations.
> warning:     hotplug-2004_04_01-7.7                   Requires: 
> initscripts >= 7.93.14.EL
>
> If I grab disc1 from the iso distribution and perform a linux rescue 
> my failed install, I see
> this is the install.log:
>
> Installing initscripts-7.93.25.EL-1.centos4.i386.
> /usr/sbin/groupadd: error while loading shared libraries: 
> libaudit.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> error: %pre(initscripts-7.93.25.EL-1.centos4.i386) scriptlet failed, 
> exit status 127
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping 
> initscripts-7.93.25.EL-1.centos4
>
> I have other error messages in the install.log as well.  I have had 
> pleanty of success with
> FC3 kickstarts.  I made the (apparently incorrect) assumption that the 
> CentOS kickstart would
> be exactly the same.  Perhaps you could point me to a document?
>
> Thanks again
>
> Steve Finley
>
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 12:10 -0600, Steve Finley wrote:
>>  
>>> Greetings all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to create a CentOS 4.4 kickstart CD (not a network 
>>> install), duplicating what
>>> I've done for Fedora Core 3.
>>>
>>> I am having a cirular dependency for initscripts, which causes 
>>> initscripts not to be installed
>>> (no /etc/inittab when the boot gets to INIT)
>>>
>>> The cascade is:
>>>
>>> initscripts-7.39.25.EL-1.centos4 requires /sbin/nash
>>> /sbin/nash is in mkinitrd-4.2.1.8-1
>>> mkinitrd-4.2.1.8-1 requires dev
>>> dev appears to be in udev-039-10.15.EL4
>>> udev-039-10.15.EL4 requires hotplug
>>> hotplug requires initscripts-7.93.14.EL
>>>
>>> I'm guessing that the hotplug spec file is wrong.  I can build my 
>>> own version and continue finding
>>> conflicts (like the circular dependency between cracker and 
>>> cracker-dict, for example), but my
>>> real question is, how is your iso distribution able to install with 
>>> this initscripts conflict?
>>>     
>>
>> There is no conflict .... at least not a version conflict.  I do CD/DVD,
>> http and NFS kick starts all the time.
>> ------------------------------------------
>> [johnny at myth ~]$ rpm -q --requires hotplug | grep initscripts
>> initscripts >= 7.93.14.EL
>>
>> The above clearly says >= ... 7.93.25.EL is >= 7.93.14.EL, so that
>> dependency is met.  Not sure why your hotplug is set to "initscripts =
>> 7.93.14.EL", or at least why it is being interpreted that way by
>> whatever process you are trying to use.
>> ------------------------------------------
>> Thanks,
>> Johnny Hughes
>>   
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