Description of Problem: When I try to run redhat-config-packages (from the menu Application/System Settings/Packages) it reaches the step "Checking system package status", then immediately throws the error "Installation Tree Not Found - The path /dev/cdrom does not look like a valid installation source". When I click the "OK" button, it then exits Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Most recent package 0.92.1-1 How Reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start redhat-config-packages either from the menu or from the command line. 2. That's it. 3. Actual Results: I get the error as reported above. Expected Results: I expect the program to run. :-) Additional Information: I am running the most recent packages for the null beta - including the 200+ updates (!) that were released last night via up2date.
Do you have the comps package installed (rpm -q comps)?
The comps package was not installed. I went and grabbed it (from i386/RedHat/base/), and now redhat-config-packages does run correctly.
How did you do your installation originally? There were a few paths where it didn't get installed that we've fixed internally
I did a network (FTP) install, using a floppy I'd made from the 'null' images directory. Actually I've encountered this error on two separate computers (both were FTP installs). On my desktop machine I'd used the image bootnet.img; for the second I used pcmcia.img since it is a laptop. Probably that doesn't matter... I didn't "select individual packages" on either install, as far as I remember, but I did add and remove a few categories of packages (i.e. "Windows compatibility", "WWW server", stuff at that level).
Yeah, there was a problem with ftp/http installs not installing the comps package in (null) that is fixed in internal trees