RE: genhdlist issue?

Marco,

I've never had to run genhdlist for a Red Hat Linux/390 install.  I =
always
used the ones that came from the Red Hat FTP server.

What does your HTTP logs have to say about the requests for packages =
that
"whizzed by?"  Were those 200 or 404 return codes?

Most of the time these problems have come up, one or more of the files =
in
the base directory have been corrupted during download, usually due to
transmission error of some kind.  There should be an MD5SUM file in =
that
directory so you can check them for correctness.  But, hdlist and =
hdlist2
were modified after the MD5SUM file was created, so you'll get an error =
for
those two.  The correct sums are:
da08ed9f6b3071fd6361e9eb1fc370f9  hdlist
31bbfea4b72c2e25b4c57f8226cd3ac5  hdlist2

Some of the mirrors at http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html do =
have
the S/390 distribution.  Some of the ones that don't look like they do, =
do,
and some of the ones that say they do, don't, so you may have to look.  =
If
you put your mouse over the red button in the "S" column, check to see =
if
the link says "8.0/en/os/s390" or "7.2/en/os/390"  When RH 8.0 came =
out, the
mirrors page was updated blindly, and the S/390 version got changed =
from 7.2
to 8.0, even though 7.2 is the latest for S/390.

Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Marco Shaw [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 7:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Redhat-s390-list] genhdlist issue?


(Sorry don't know how all of this is going to format.)

Have an RHN account and was able to d/l the s/390 RPMs much quicker =
that
way.

I brought down the s390/base and s390/installer directories from the
regular RedHat FTP site.

So, my first attempt to install s390 took 12 minutes for 360 packages.=20
I knew something was wrong because some packages whizzed right by.  Of
course I couldn't boot into RedHat/390 once complete.  Read a bit more
and figured that I would have to run genhdlist or at least I had no
other ideas on what I needed to fix.

Ran genhdlist on my RedHat 8.0 RPM server, but then retried the RH/390
install only to get an anaconda crash as it's trying to read the =
package
information:
               | An unhandled exception has occured.  This   # =C2=A6
               =C2=A6 is most likely a bug.  Please copy the      =
=C2=A6 =C2=A6
               =C2=A6 full text of this exception and file a      =
=C2=A6 =C2=A6
               =C2=A6 detailed bug report against anaconda at     =
=C2=A6 =C2=A6
               =C2=A6 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/        =
=C2=A6 =C2=A6
               =C2=A6                                             =
=C2=A6 =C2=A6
               =C2=A6 Traceback (innermost last):                 =
=C2=A6 =C2=A6
               =C2=A6   File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 640, in ?  =
=C2=A6 =C2=A6
               =C2=A6     intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)  =
=C2=A6 =C2=A6
               =C2=A6   File                                      =
=C2=A6 =C2=A6
               =C2=A6 "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.2//usr/lib/anaconda/t  =
=C2=A6 =C2=A6
               =C2=A6 ext.py", line 418, in run

Entering debug:

Graphical installation not available for http installs.  Starting text
mode.
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 640, in ?
    intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.2//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 418, in
run
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.2//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 144,
in gotoNext
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.2//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 209,
in moveStep
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.2//usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 106,
in readPackages
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.2//usr/lib/anaconda/urlinstall.py", line =
39,
in readComps
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.2//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 795, in
__init__  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.2//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line
558, in readCompsFile
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.2//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 152, in
__getitem__
KeyError: MAKEDEV

> /var/tmp/anaconda-7.2//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py(152)__getitem__()
(Pdb)

I'm wondering if genhdlist and the hdlist file it creates are OS
dependent?

My HTTP logs:=20
192.168.200.3 - - [06/Jan/2003:20:22:13 -0400] "GET
/s390/RedHat/base/hdlist HTTP/1.0" 200 1129672 "-" "Python-urllib/1.10"
192.168.200.3 - - [06/Jan/2003:20:22:24 -0400] "GET
/s390/RedHat/base/comps HTTP/1.0" 200 20665 "-" "Python-urllib/1.10"

Any ideas?  Did I go wrong with getting all the RPMS from RHN?  My DSL
connection is getting like 2kB/s from ftp.redhat.com!

Marco



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