Re: xfs installer errors

[Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com>]

Harald Wagener wrote:
> one more addition: The rpm database seems to be corrupt after the 
> installation completes (observed on the updated machine as well as a 
> fresh install done earlier for another machine, thought it to be a freak 
> error at the first time). I do a db_recover in /var/lib/rpm, which 
> deletes all __db.nnn files, and after that a 'rpm --rebuilddb' - after 
> that, all works (reasonably) well.
> 
> I didn't check if this is a problem with a pure redhat install, but 
> people might get stuck on this.

I have not noticed this in the many installs I have done.
(Most of them are network/NFS installs with my own kickstart config)

BTW - Doing a full kickstart install in text mode works fine even
if the disk is brand new/empty.  (Non-interactive kickstart mode)

I keep wanting to take the time to respin an installer with our
packages in it but it has been just as simple to add in a kickstart
post-install script to install those things that are not part of
the distribution.  (And install a new kernel, etc)

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