I hate to come across as a nag, but... I just tried imaging a new system with RHEL4/Update4 on it (the update was just released the other day). Anyhow, I grabbed an image and decided to run si_prepareclient with the -no-uyok switch because I was getting impatient - my vote would be to make that the default, but I'm sure there was already a lot of discussion around that and so don't really care all that much.
Anyhow, prepage client went smoothly and when I retrieved the image, the very last thing is did was: Press <Enter> to continue... Couldn't open /var/lib/systemimager/images/rhel4-U4-poker/etc/systemimager/boot/ARCH for reading No such file or directory at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Server.pm line 75. A little more digging shows there is no /etc/systemimager/boot directory on the client. How can that be as I did install initd-templace as you can see from this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep systemi systemimager-i386initrd_template-3.7.4r3676_arighi-1 systemimager-common-3.7.4r3676_arighi-1 systemimager-client-3.7.4r3676_arighi-1 could it be that in previous installations that did work I simply had that directory hanging around from past installs? I looked inside the init-template rpm and there's nothing in there that install in /etc/systemimager or ARCH. As a further suggestion, and I know this can be a pain, I think every 'open' failure on an expected file should print a message something like "are you should you installed rpm xyz?" just to let those not capable of reading the code what might be wrong. but wait - I tried running prepareclient again without -no-myok and it failed too! Finally dawned on me that I had installed the i386 initrd-template instead of the x8664 one, but again a friendlier message could help the less informed - though given my blunder I *am* one of the less informed. So I installed the right template and ran prepareclient without -no-uyok and this time I got a boot directory so all seems ok. Unfortunately I now have to regrab the image - at least I think I do - but at least it will only pull the few files that have changed. OK, now I'm getting warnings: Are you satisfied? ([y]/n): WARNING: LVM partition "/dev/sda2" is not assigned to any group! WARNING: LVM group "VolGroup00" doesn't have partitions! and not being an LVM kind of a person, have no idea what these mean. All I know is I have a valid, running system and here's what parted shows: (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-238475.179 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 101.975 primary ext3 boot 2 101.975 238472.688 primary lvm -mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
