On Tue, 31 May 2005, Brian Long wrote: >I'm trying to use yum in the %post section of kickstart. With well- >written RPMs, this works great. However, I've come across the lovely HP >Insight Manager RPMS (hpasm, hprsm, etc) which seem to run "service >hpasm start" during the RPM postinstall (yuck). This wouldn't be too >bad if the daemons actually disassociated from the running terminal. Don't let it have them: %post yum groupinstall Insight-Manager < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 >I notice yum install the group "yum groupinstall Insight-Manager" and >yum exits, but the rest of the kickstart %post doesn't run. If I look >at the hpasmd processes, they're tied to tty1 and owned by init :( If >I hit Alt-F2 in kickstart and chroot /mnt/sysimage, service hpasm stop, >the rest of the kickstart %post finishes. I also strace'd the /tmp/ks- >script process and it's stuck at waitpid(-1, ) If that doesn't work, then lay a trap: %post ( while ! killall -q hpasm; do sleep 3; done & ) yum groupinstall Insight-Manager Hope at least one of these works... :) Cheers, Phil
