For some reason I can't remember, a few weeks ago I upgraded the e2fsprogs in my RHL 7.2-based tree to the 1.27-3 package from RHL 7.3. I can't remember particularly why I did this, but I'm pretty sure I had a good reason at the time. Anyway, I've suddenly discovered that anaconda will no longer work properly when rebuilt against this tree -- it crashes when trying to format the partitions, with an exec error -- and sure enough, /usr/sbin/mkfs.ext2 and /usr/sbin/mke2fs are size 0 in netstg1.img and hdstg1.img. Everything works fine if I put e2fsprogs-1.26 back in the tree (except of course whatever problem I upgraded to 1.27 to solve). The two packages look almost identical -- 1.27 just adds mkfs.ext3 as another link. Yet one works, and the other doesn't. This is driving me batty. Any suggestions? -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
