Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 98719
kernel-smp hangs install if symlink not present...
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:53 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: When installing kernel-smp it seems that it's expecting this symlink to be there: /lib/kernel/2.4.9-e.24smp/libredhat-kernel.so.1 -> /lib/kernel/2.4.9-e.24smp/libredhat-kernel.so.1.0.1 that isn't there. In the install.log file located in /mnt/sysimage/tmp, the last line is: "tar: error while loading shared libraries: libredhat-kernel.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" Also, I am not doing a full install (see below for the ks.cfg script that specifies the RPMS that are being install). Additional Info (May be helpful, may not) ----------------------------------------- Hardware: Dell Poweredge 1600SC Installation type: Network install using Kickstart script ks.cfg script: -------------- install rootpw novell nfs --server apt.provo.novell.com --dir /inet/ftp/pub/redhat/2.1AS/i386/ interactive lang en_US langsupport --default en_US en_US firewall --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 timezone America/Denver bootloader clearpart --all part swap --size 1 --maxsize 512 --grow --asprimary --fstype swap part / --size 1 --grow --asprimary --fstype ext3 %packages libaio @ Classic X Window System @ X Window System @ GNOME @ KDE @ Network Support @ Utilities @ Advanced Server %post Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.4.9-e.24.i686.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Steps to recreate: ------------------ 1. do a kickstart install with a ks.cfg file that has the same package list as the ks.cfg file from the description. 2. wait until the kernel-smp rpm is trying to be installed. 3. notice that the installer hangs and that you see the same error message as above in the install.log file. Actual Results: the installer hangs while installing the kernel-smp rpm and can't recover. Expected Results: it should finish installing the kernel-smp rpm Additional info:
Ok, I just did a CD install using the same ks.cfg file and it installed just fine, so it seems to be only on NFS installs that it has problems. My Symlink conclusion could be wrong. Looking at the filesystem from a successful cd install with the same ks.cfg file, I've noticed that it doesn't contain a symlink either. So I'm really not sure what's causing this.
One more thing, this is using all update-2 stuff. When I'm doing the NFS install, I'm using bootnet.img and drvnet.img (both update-2 of course).
Created attachment 92785 [details] install.log file from a successfull CD install using the same ks.cfg file
Created attachment 92786 [details] install.log file from an unsuccessfull NFS install using the same ks.cfg file
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98717 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.