Bug 114467

Summary: Error with software base-selection
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Efthimios Toulas <etoulas>
Component: AutoYaSTAssignee: Uwe Gansert <ug>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: SUSE Other   
Whiteboard:
Found By: Component Test Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 97395    

Description Efthimios Toulas 2005-08-31 16:39:21 UTC
Hy!

I'm preparing a AutoYaST environment for our QA-Team. And I need some help ;-)

After creating a control-file with the Autoinstallation-Module of YaST2, I got
the error-message mention in the Summary.

The section in my XML-file looks like this:
<software>
  <addons config:type="list">
    <addon>Min</addon>
    <addon>X11</addon>
  </addons>
  <base>Minimal+X11</base>
  <packages config:type="list">
    <package>susehelp_de</package>
  </packages>
</software>

I also tried some other configurations like Minimal and default and got the same
error.

So, what can I do to prevent this?
Comment 1 Uwe Gansert 2005-09-01 06:43:47 UTC
Where do you get an error? During installation?
The XML part above looks good but I can't test beta4 at the moment because I'm
in Prague on a workshop this week,

please give some more information about the error you see like the text of the
error message and where exactly you see that.



Comment 2 Efthimios Toulas 2005-09-01 18:13:18 UTC
I get the error during installation, right. The steps are:
After network-booting, yast fires up and starts the automatic installation. On
my screen is a dialog with the title "Preparing System for Automated
Installation". the following steps work correct:
- configure generell settings
- execute pre-install user scripts
- create partition plans
The fourth "Configure Software selections" stops with the small error message:
Could not set base selection: Minimal

My testserver provides dhcp/pxe, linux/initrd and a copy of CD1 (tried 9.3,
beta3, beta4) vie tftp.

--- some minutes later ---

And now I found my fault... DON'T USE TFTP AS MEDIA SOURCE!!! :-(
Just a minute ago I exported the packages via NFS and it just worked.

But this is missing in the autoyast documantation.
Although, all seems good now and I learned a lot of autoyast today ;-)

Have fun in Prague.
Comment 3 Uwe Gansert 2005-09-05 14:31:09 UTC
I did not know that tftp as installation source does not work.
I'll take a look at this but actually I think you are the first one who has
tried to install from a tftp server ;)

I close this bug but will keep it in mind.