great! yes, the version of parted that's part of RHEL4/Update4 is: GNU Parted 1.6.19 so what should I do in the meantime? is there a newer snapshot I should be running? I'm current using: v3.7.4r3676_arighi -mark
Andrea Righi wrote: >All the problems should be fixed in 3.7.4. The problem with parted >should be resolved too, it's the same problem about the old syntax used >by parted. Can you confirm that your parted version (parted --version) >is < 1.6.23? > >-Andrea > >Mark Seger wrote: > > >>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 Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
