Dan,
I've recognized the problem on the systems that we build; because
in the %post section, the last the we do is sys-unconfig. When the
system boots back up, there are dialog boxes with the issue that you
describe. ${SYSFONT} is set to something like "latcyrheb" by default.
After having given this some additional thought, I'm not really
sure how to make the redefined value part of the %post environment.
Maybe if you copied in the new /etc/sysconfig/i18n, and then re-run the
initscript that reads that file (whatever script that may be). Then
start your dialog stuff.
Sincerely,
John S. Monaco
System Administrator & "Linux Dude"
WW Make IT
E-mail: xjmonaco@xxxxxx
Phone: (214) 567-5831
Daniel Segall wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply. How exactly is this set/read during the
kickstart process? Do I need to have my post edit this file before running
my dialog post-install? I wasn't aware that this was used at all during
the actual kickstart.
Thanks,
-Dan
Daniel,
I have done some checking on this. I think it's caused by the
default font. I changed /etc/sysconfig/i18n to look like this:
LANG="en_US.iso885915"
SUPPORTED="en_US.iso885915:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
SYSFONTACM="iso15"
Sincerely,
John S. Monaco
System Administrator & "Linux Dude"
WW Make IT
E-mail: xjmonaco@xxxxxx
Phone: (214) 567-5831
Daniel Segall wrote:
Hey all,
I'm trying to finish up some custom kickstarts, and I'm down to this
last
problem. I run a post-install script (using dialog) with a series of
questions for adding a machine to our environment (NIS, IP, etc). I
figured out how to get them working interactively with the chvt command,
and everything works as it should.
My problem is that I'm getting strange (ascii?) characters in all of my
dialog boxes where the lines (borders) should be. I have tried several
variations to my dialog commands, but none has worked. If I go to vt2
and
manually run the script, it shows up fine, so I believe the problem is
something environmental to vt3. Like I said before, everything actually
works, I can input the info it asks for, and it progresses through the
different dialogs just fine. It just looks messed up. Below are the
important sections of my ks.cfg & the post install script it calls.
ks.cfg
======================================================
%post --interpreter /bin/sh
exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3
chvt 3
cat <<EOF >>/etc/motd
#######################################
## KICKSTART STILL IN PROGRESS!!!!!! ##
#######################################
`cat /etc/redhat-release` - Installed `date`
EOF
cat /etc/motd >>/root/ks.log
cat /etc/motd
cd /root
echo " * Mounting our NFS share..."
# Create a mount point, mount the kickstart NFS share, & grab the
post-install script
mkdir /mnt/ks
mount -r -o nolock 10.1.1.1:/kickstart /mnt/ks
echo " * Copying config files from share..."
cp /mnt/ks/linux-postinstall.sh /root/
cp /mnt/ks/redhatconfig.tar.gz /root
-- snip --
# Execute our post install
echo " " >>/root/ks.log
if [ -f /root/linux-postinstall.sh ]; then
echo " * Executing Post-Install..." >>/root/ks.log
echo " * Executing Post-Install..."
chmod +x /root/linux-postinstall.sh
exec /root/linux-postinstall.sh >>/root/ks.log
else
echo "Can't find linux-postinstall.sh." >>/root/ks.log
echo "Can't find linux-postinstall.sh."
fi
# We done.
echo " * Post-Install complete. System rebooting." >>/root/ks.log
echo " * Post-Install complete. System rebooting."
chvt 1
sleep 10
exit 0
#EOF
======================================================
linux-postinstall.sh
======================================================
#!/bin/bash
BT="ITRC Linux Post-Install"
# Exit the script if it has already been run.
if [ -f /tmp/postinstall.done ]
then
dialog --backtitle "$BT" --title "Error!" --msgbox "This script
has already been run. Remove /tmp/postinstall.done if you want to
continue." 0 0
exit
fi
touch /tmp/postinstall.done
#####################################
######### Define Variables ##########
#####################################
dialog --backtitle "$BT" --title "NIS" --yesno "Is this system going
into
NIS?" 0 0
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
IPADDR=`dialog --backtitle "$BT" --title "IP Address?" --stdout
--inputbox "Enter your IP address" 0 0`
HNAME=`dialog --backtitle "$BT" --title "Hostname?" --stdout
--inputbox "Enter your hostname (without domain)" 0 0`
else
dialog --backtitle "$BT" --title "See Ya!" --msgbox "Your on
your
own, Big Admin" 0 0
exit
fi
--snip--
======================================================
Thanks,
-Dan
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