Bug 157541

Summary: Error message during ssh remote installation
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Thomas Blume <thomas.blume>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Olaf Dabrunz <odabrunz>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None CC: suse-beta
Version: Beta 7   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Description Thomas Blume 2006-03-13 11:26:12 UTC
The following error message is displayed when installing 10.1 beta7 remote on the console  accessed via ssh:

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SUSE Linux Installation

/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
Welcome to the inst-sys...
Linux 149.44.171.34 2.6.16-rc5-git9-2-default #1 Tue Mar 7 14:56:34 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
/root

run yast to start the installation

inst-sys:~ # yast
unicode_start skipped on /dev/pts/0
Probing connected terminal...

Initializing virtual console...

Found an xterm terminal on /dev/pts/0 (104 columns x 38 lines).
*** Starting YaST2 ***
Use of uninitialized value in split at
        /usr/share/YaST2/modules/Bootloader_API.pm line 211 (#1)
    (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already
    defined.  It was interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake.
    To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables.

    To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what operation
    you used the undefined value in.  Note, however, that perl optimizes your
    program and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily
    appear literally in your program.  For example, "that $foo" is
    usually optimized into "that " . $foo, and the warning will refer to
    the concatenation (.) operator, even though there is no . in your
    program.

Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at
        /usr/share/YaST2/modules/Bootloader_API.pm line 215 (#1)

Argument "<NULL>" isn't numeric in array element at
        /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Bootloader/Core/GRUB.pm line 1182 (#2)
    (W numeric) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an operator
    that expected a numeric value instead.  If you're fortunate the message
    will identify which operator was so unfortunate.

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This might just be cosmetic.
I didn't see any impact on the installation so far.
Comment 1 Bodo Bauer 2006-04-24 12:27:17 UTC
There has been no activity for quite a while. I'm closing this bug as
WONTFIX. If you feel this is inappropriate and the bug should remain open,
or you have new information which may lead to an actual resolution, please
reopen the bug and add the new status.