Re: mkinitrd (or grub) hanging on install of sles10-b9

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:11:21PM +0200, Martin Vidner wrote:

> "No SCR instance found" means that an important library cannot
> access the target system. Anything can go wrong from now on. Please
> file a bug, with logs:
> http://en.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST

Actually, I figured it out over the weekend, and have a different bug to
open I guess (need to make sure it's not already there).

Turns out the software dependency bits have a bug.. We use sendmail here
and I had sendmail added as a <package> (then later I created a custom
pattern file with it).  THis would result in:
Apr  7 16:00:59 rs-workstation yast2[3064]: 2006-04-07 16:00:58 <0>
129.46.234.51(3064) [solver] Resolver_problems.cc(problems):181 Problem:
ResolverInfo<CONFLICT_CANT_INSTALL> sendmail-8.13.6-4.x86_64[SUSE
SLES-10-20060407-160052] Error!>>A conflict over sendmail == 8.13.6-4
(sendmail) requires the removal of to-be-installed
sendmail-8.13.6-4.x86_64[SUSE SLES-10-20060407-160052]<<, Trigger: none

If I added a remove-package of postfix (to get rid of the dependency
issue) it would still fail:
Apr  7 16:25:23 rs-workstation yast2[3088]: 2006-04-07 16:25:25 <0>
129.46.234.51(3088) [solver] Resolver_problems.cc(problems):181 Problem:
ResolverInfo<CONFLICT_CANT_INSTALL> postfix-2.2.9-3.x86_64[SUSE
SLES-10-20060407-162515] Error!>>A conflict over postfix == 2.2.9-3
(postfix) requires the removal of to-be-installed
postfix-2.2.9-3.x86_64[SUSE SLES-10-20060407-162515]<<, Trigger: none

so the resulting software package list was nothing.. but the next step
of the booatloader config would add grub, and it would try to install
grub, which, of course.. failed.  Same happens when I try to replace
cups bits with lprng (we already have a huge configuration setup with
lprng).

Checking bugs now and filing if missing...

For now, I have post install scripts that force remove what I need
removed, then I add back the few rpms I need instead.

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