Hi
This star-office balad is really amusing. I have found out something new,
i wonder if someone knows what to make out of it.
As i said before, i have installed the SO 5.1a with the /net option as a
root, but "user" setup did not work properly - it just freezes after
presing the last OK. "root" can do the "user setup" and use SO normaly
though...
- At first I thought there are some conflicts with "rests" of the old
RedHat packages. I have been fighting the RH packages for some time, and
re-installed one of the machines from scratch yesterday - to no avail.
- Then I thought there is a problem with permissions, but this turned
out to be false assumption.
- After checking out permissions of all the libraries on the system, i
recognised that the problem must be somewhere else - one of the wild
guesses was that the problem lies in my home-directory: i am using
automounted (with autofs) home-directories. Therefore i made a "dummy"
user with a directory on the local host - for this user, SO-instalation
went OK!
-However, this was too simple to be true - therefore i made another dummy
user with home-directory on another "client" machine (with Mandrake 6.1).
Surprise-surprise! The instalation for this user went flawlessly too,
althoug his home directory was on NFS, too.
The "server" machine still runns with a 2.0.x kernel, because of our
ADSM-backup server - so my latest guess is that SO 5.1a does not like
NFS-mounted home-directories which are exported from older linux machines.
I know this sounds very weird, but I have been fighting with this problem
for a long time now, and this is the only plausible explanation that comes
to my mind. Any better ideas?
To make the things more interesting, i did not have this kind of problems
with clients running RH 6.0 - maybe the problem is with SO5.1-a and
2.2.13 kernel? I tried installing the kernel update, but packages
seam to be broken somehow- vmware does not like them at all...
ideas anyone?
Denis
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