Johnny Hughes wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:57 +0400, security wrote:
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>>Hello all,
>>I am making my own distribution based on RHEL AS 3U4 (with additional
>>rpms, like urpmi, webmin, nessus, Maildir format by default for Postfix,
>>courier-IMAP etc.) and I would like to have information from the CentOS
>>team. I am generating the isos of this distribution but during the
>>launching of anaconda, the graphic interface failed to work, so the
>>installation in text mode is the only one possible. I think i find the
>>problem: pam.
>>by using pam-0.75-51, all is ok (graphical install of anaconda) but with
>>more recent versions, anaconda refuses to launch the graphical install.
>>Question: had somebody similar problems?? Thank you in advance and
>>good year to all :)
>>
>>
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>Are you using the latest anaconda from RHEL-3 (anaconda-9.1.4.1-1).
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yes :) I have tested with the anaconda from centos (maybe I miss a
shared library ?) but the problem is exactly the same ...
Strange .... the Graphical install don't want to work.
>We are using pam-0.77-65 with anaconda-10.1.1.3-1 in CentOS-4beta ... I
>don't know what all you would have to upgrade to make that work with
>RHEL-3 stuff. Personally, I would stick with what RHEL-3 uses (currently
>anaconda-9.1.4.1-1 and pam-0.75-62 in CentOS-3.4), so that you can do
>updates easily when they have security issues.
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I think the problem is not anaconda after all ... maybe the fact to
compile for i686 some packages make the install process
don't work correctly?
>See this concerning RedHat's backporting policy. Just because a RHEL
>package is older, it doesn't necessarily mean that it has security
>issues:
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>http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html
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I know :) but this issue is ... unexplainable
I will try to recompile some rpms like util-linux for i386, not for i686 :-/
Thanks for your help :)
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