On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 16:34 -0500, Mark Heslep wrote:
1. 1/2 dozen gnome(ish) package installs ( gdm, evolution,
file-roller,
etc ) report a "...parser error: Input is not proper UTF-8...." to the
anaconda /root/install.log but install ok otherwise.
They're actually all complaining about the Spanish gnome-panel .omf
file. It's fixed upstream and will be in the next build.
2. Bus device name attribuition caused headaches with conflicts
betwenn
the usb storage device and internal SCSI adapter. When the usb stick
is the boot device it takes /dev/sda away from the internal scsi
adapter / disks. [1] The install can be made to go ok but on reboot from
the internal drive is atrributed sda again causing havoc. Passing
"nousbstorage" to anaconda clears the way of course for the internal
SCSI but makes the usb stick unusable for any further use during the
installation. I thought filesystem LABELs were invented to avoid this
kind of problem but they dont help either: the kernel can't find
'init' on root and panics. Had to fall back to rescue mode and mangle
/etc/fstab back to /dev/sda.
You didn't get labels? This is a case that udev is going to help with
(which is why I haven't done much to work around it otherwise). On my
test box where this happens, things work fine with the exception of my
swap (which is unlabeled) doesn't get found properly. Are you using any
RAID or LVM?
5. Unsupported category: jfs based installation crashes Anaconda
due
to a bad path to jfs_tune. bug# 115101. Kick start %pre sym link
provies a work around for now.
Went ahead and committed the fix for this already :)
Jeremy