Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 180527
Anaconda installs X windows system when doing minimal install
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:23 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051220 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: I did a linux text installation of RHEL4, where I unselected every package available in order to get a minimum installation. Instead of the expected 600mb minimum install size, I get an installation size of 1200mb, which include xorg-x11 packages and associated gnome and kde libs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type linux text at install cd bootloader 2. Specify custom package install 3. Unselect all package groups 4. Install System Actual Results: Installs successfully, however installs X-related package groups. After reboot, linux goes into init 5 and starts X. Expected Results: Should only install base system packages. After reboot, linux should go into init 3 and remain in CLI mode. Additional info:
Also attempted again with a kickstart file, using parameters skipx and text. Same results.
Please attach your ks.cfg (or paste in the %packages section).
Tried to determine what dialup and compat-arch-support provides.. no real insight. %packages @ dialup @ compat-arch-support kernel grub e2fsprogs lvm2
After looking in the /RedHat/base/comps.xml in CD1, the group compat-arch-support contains X-oriented packages in the default setting. for example: <packagereq type="default">gtk+</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">gtk2</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">gtk2-engines</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">gtk-engines</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">gtkhtml2</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">gtksourceview</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">gtkspell</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">guile</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">hal</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">hesiod</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">iiimf-gtk</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">kdebase</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">kdelibs</packagereq> <packagereq type="default">kdemultimedia</packagereq> Should anaconda not have included this package set in the install after specifying as much of a bare-bones installation as possible?
Created attachment 124531 [details] kickstart file (complete)
Did another install with this kickstart file, removing the dialup and compat-arch-support groups install cdrom lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us skipx network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp rootpw --iscrypted $1$m4JT1x7a$0q4rgNkwRVzel0MMp4fPL. firewall --enabled selinux --permissive authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 timezone --utc America/New_York bootloader --location=mbr # The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work #clearpart --linux --drives=sda #part /boot --fstype "ext3" --size=100 --ondisk=sda #part pv.100000 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda #volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.100000 #logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow #logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=128 --grow --maxsiz e=256 %packages kernel grub e2fsprogs lvm2 %post This time, the installation went perfectly, only installing the base packages. I will attach the install.log.
Created attachment 125063 [details] install.log from successful install
Yes, the compat-arch group will pull in lots of stuff. If you only want specific packages from it, you can specify them via name.arch