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