<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2658.2"> <TITLE>RE: Kickstart hangs when removing sendmail</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> I had tried that early on, but noticed it wasn't getting removed. Deamon was still present and startable. Thanks. - Chris -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com [<A HREF="mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com</A>] On Behalf Of Micah Parrish Sent: January 27, 2005 11:26 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: Kickstart hangs when removing sendmail I think you can exclude sendmail by putting -sendmail in the packages section of your kickstart file. --Micah Parrish micah.parrish@hp.com On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 23:22 -0500, Chris Mckenzie wrote: > Thanks Phil. > > - Definitely indefinitely? Or just a really long time? > > Never comes back. I've waited as long as 20 minutes. > > - Why not exclude sendmail from the package list in the kickstart > file? > > I didn't. Most probably included as part of a RH package I most > definately didn't expect to include a sendmail dep, or anaconda > insists on installing it despite not including it. > > - ps/pstree on the Alt+F2 VT should show at which point the thing's > hung > > Don't know if it'll help. > > - rpm has various verbose/debugging flags which should help pin it > down > > I'll have to take a closer look. Maybe I can get more out of rpm after > all. > > Thanks. > > - Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com > [<A HREF="mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com</A>] On Behalf Of Philip > Rowlands > Sent: January 27, 2005 11:09 PM > To: Discussion list about Kickstart > Subject: Re: Kickstart hangs when removing sendmail > > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Chris Mckenzie wrote: > > >Hi all. > > > >My kickstart occasionally hangs indefinitely intermittedly when from > my > >%post I call: > > > > rpm -e sendmail > > - Definitely indefinitely? Or just a really long time? > - Why not exclude sendmail from the package list in the kickstart > file? > - ps/pstree on the Alt+F2 VT should show at which point the thing's > hung > - rpm has various verbose/debugging flags which should help pin it > down > > > Cheers, > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@redhat.com > <A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list" TARGET="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</A> > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@redhat.com > <A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list" TARGET="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</A> _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@redhat.com <A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list" TARGET="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</A> </BODY> </HTML>