When bringing up a new machine, I have a script that is called at the end of rc.local which will do several "groupinstall"s to pull in package groups depending on what the system is configured to do: for i in math-base math-dev math-emacs math-browser math-multimedia math-office math-tex; do yum -y -d3 groupinstall $i | tee -a /tmp/updates done For some reason, math-base and math-dev won't install this way, but the others will. If I log in and run that command line myself, everything's fine. The output logged to /tmp/updates for the math-base bit is: Loading "installonlyn" plugin Running "config" handler for "installonlyn" plugin Yum Version: 2.6.1 COMMAND: yum -d3 Installroot: / Ext Commands: math-base Setting up Group Process Setting up repositories Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://XXX/yum/fedora-core/5/i386/core'] Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://XXX/yum/fedora-core/5/i386/livna'] Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://XXX/yum/fedora-core/5/i386/updates'] Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://XXX/yum/fedora-core/5/i386/groups'] Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://XXX/yum/fedora-core/5/i386/local'] Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://XXX/yum/fedora-core/5/i386/extras'] Getting group metadata Reading Local RPMDB Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Setting up Package Sacks Building updates object and nothing else. For a group that works, the log continues: Resolving Dependencies 1152296102.65 --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. and so on, downloading headers and such. If I log in and run that command manually, the log continues like that as well, plus I get a bunch of additional output like progress bars and such. I'm completely at a loss as to why something would work from the command line but not from a script at boot time. I even tried putting those groupinstall bits into a file, appending "ts run" and calling it with yum -y -d3 shell, but the whole thing stops at: Reading repository metadata in from local files Setting up Package Sacks Building updates object Yum Version: 2.6.1 COMMAND: groupupdate math-base Installroot: / Ext Commands: math-base Setting up Group Process Getting group metadata I don't see anything wrong with my yumgroups.xml file; xmllint seems to parse it and doesn't complain about anything. I put a copy of the file at http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/yumgroups.xml. Thanks in advance for any hints. - J<
