There was a temporary issue where grub was not present in one of the
composes for rawhide. Your issue could be related to that. I would try
again in a couple of days.
regards.
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:28:43PM -0500, Matt Rose wrote:
> I'm having an unusual problem. I recently re-wrote my ks.cfg %pre script in
> python, and now anaconda can't install 64bit.
>
> 32bit installs fine, but 64bit fails with a file conflict.
>
> I put some debug code in an updates.img, and I got the following error message
> in anaconda.log
>
> 20:33:27 ERROR : [('file /sbin/grub conflicts between attempted installs of
> grub-0.97-13 and grub-0.97-13', (6, '/sbin/grub', 0L)), ('file /usr/bin/mbchk
> conflicts between attempted installs of grub-0.97-13 and grub-0.97-13', (6, '/
> usr/bin/mbchk', 0L)), ('file /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.11/sample/fd.o conflicts
> between attempted installs of syslinux-3.11-4 and syslinux-3.11-4', (6, '/usr/
> share/doc/syslinux-3.11/sample/fd.o', 0L))]
>
> So I look further up the anaconda.log, and I see this:
>
> 20:33:16 DEBUG : Member: grub.x86_64 0-0.97-13 - u
> 20:33:16 DEBUG : Adding Package grub - 0.97-13.x86_64 in mode u
> 20:33:16 DEBUG : Member: grub.i386 0-0.97-13 - u
> 20:33:16 DEBUG : Adding Package grub - 0.97-13.i386 in mode u
>
> and then it occurs to me that all packages are being added twice, once for
> i386, and once for x86_64.
>
> This is my new %pre script, and it doesn't matter whether it's a separate
> script that I put on the CD image, or called in the ks.cfg with "%pre
> --interpreter /usr/bin/python"
>
> Judging from the amount of patches flying by, I know you guys are busy, but if
> somebody can think of a reason why anaconda would be adding nonexistent,
> conflicting i386 packages because of a %pre script, I would greatly appreciate
> it.
>
> import sys,os,time,shutil,parted,math,subprocess
> sys.path.append("/usr/lib/anaconda")
> import isys,iutil
> #if len(isys.hardDriveDict()) != 1:
> # sys.exit(123)
> #else:
> drive = isys.hardDriveDict().keys()[0]
> print drive
>
> if drive == 'cciss/c0d0':
> drive = 'cciss/c0d0p'
> print drive
>
> dev = parted.PedDevice.get("/dev/%s" % drive)
> sizeMB = (float(dev.heads * dev.cylinders * dev.sectors) / (1024 * 1024) *
> dev.sector_size)
> print sizeMB
> sizeMB_i = int(math.floor(sizeMB))
> print sizeMB_i
> if int(math.floor(float(sizeMB * .1))) > 4000:
> backup_size = int(math.floor(float(sizeMB * .1)))
> else:
> backup_size = 4000
>
> log_size = int(math.floor(float(sizeMB * .05)))
>
>
> print "/var/log size is %i " % log_size
> print "/backup size is %i " % backup_size
> root_size = (sizeMB_i - backup_size - log_size - 128 - iutil.swapSuggestion()
> [1] )
> print "/ size is %i " % root_size
> ptext = """zerombr yes
> clearpart --all
> part /backup --fstype ext3 --size %i
> part swap --recommended
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 128
> part / --fstype ext3 --size %i
> part /var/log --fstype ext3 --size %i
> """ % (backup_size,root_size,log_size)
> print ptext
> partinfo = open("/tmp/partinfo", 'w')
> partinfo.write(ptext)
> rc = partinfo.close
>
> Matt
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