Ok, now the install goes smoothly even if almost everithing selected (
>3.5 GB ) :-)
After install those rascals appreared:
1) After boot this shows in the system log:
Jan 2 23:17:35 localhost devfsd: Started device management daemon for /dev
Jan 2 23:17:36 localhost rc.sysinit: Running DevFs deamon succeeded
Jan 2 23:17:36 localhost devfsd[69]: error calling: "unlink" in "GLOBAL"
Jan 2 23:17:36 localhost devfsd[69]: error making tree for:
"/lib/dev-state/vc/11"
Jan 2 23:17:36 localhost devfsd[69]: error copying: "/dev/vcsa11" to
"/lib/dev-state/vcsa11"
I don't know if is harmless or not !!!
2) Somehow the accton script is wrong because you can not turn on
process acounting at start, the error message is:
Jan 2 21:17:43 localhost accton: accton: No such file or directory
Jan 2 21:17:43 localhost rc.sysinit: �hide� �hide� Turning on process
accouning
Easy enough, the file /var/log/pacct was missing and a touch on it
solved the problem ( BTW, why pacct and not psacct ???)
This error shows in Mandrake 8.1 also !!!
3) DrakConf (AKA Control Center ) is BADLY borken, it miss the
following files after it complains that wizards package is not installed
(it does not make a difference !!!):
gtkcreate_png: missing png file boot-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file security-mdk_highlight.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file drakfloppy-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file drakboot-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file XFdrake-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file harddrake-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file draknet-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file drakgw-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file draksec-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file firewall-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file service-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file drakfont-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
gtkcreate_png: missing png file logdrake-mdk.png at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 359.
All those files make DrakConf die !!!
After replacing manually all those if finally dies with:
tiled(160, 45) x : 0 - y : 43
tiled(160, 45) x : 0 - y : 44
Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at
/usr/X11R6/bin/drakconf.real line 442.
Thu Jan 3 00:16:16 2002 Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet
creation
Thu Jan 3 00:16:16 2002 Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Thu Jan 3 00:16:16 2002 Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Thu Jan 3 00:16:16 2002 Gdk-LOG **: file gdkfont.c: line 233
(gdk_font_unref): assertion `font != NULL' failed. at
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 386.
new_font is not of type Gtk::Gdk::Font at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm
line 386.
4) MandrakeUpdate is also dead from few versions back, it segfaults
because of the database left in /var/lib/urpmi after instalation,
probabely in that parse_compssUsers () function and IMHO is because of
the install program is saving in an incompatible format, have a look at
the gdb output:
[root@localhost icons]# gdb MandrakeUpdate
GNU gdb 5.1
This GDB was configured as "i386-mandrake-linux"...(no debugging symbols
found)...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/sbin/MandrakeUpdate
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
[New Thread 1024 (LWP 10518)]
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 10518)]
0x08051096 in parse_compssUsers ()
The trouble seem to be in files: list.Contrib CD (http2)
list.Installation CD (http1), I did my instalation via http and those
files have content like that:
http://mircea.interplus.ro//cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ldconfig-2.2.4-18mdk.i586.rpm
http://mircea.interplus.ro//cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/readline-4.2a-1mdk.i586.rpm
...
This is because I specified at install time an absolute path like
/cooker/i586 instead of cooker/i586 but the instalation went OK !!!
After moving them MandrakeUpdate did not failed anymore but it wasn't
able to rebuild the database also :( so I lost the install media
information, after I defined a new cooker source, it was added and I was
able to perform an update to the latest version and the new list file
looks like this:
...
http://mircea.interplus.ro/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/zgv-5.5-1mdk.i586.rpm
http://mircea.interplus.ro/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/zh-autoconvert-devel-0.3.13-1mdk.i586.rpm
...
Observe that no more // are in it, so it seem that was the problem,
that means that either install program has save in proper format or
MandrakeUpdate has to cope with those double slashes because specifing
an absolute path is quite common.
Sorry for that verbose report but I'm hopping that will help a
little improving the product.
Mircea C.
