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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >