upstart creates livecd install issues and is installed by default

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Wed Mar 5 22:09:33 UTC 2008


Just tried to do a livecd install and got:

Error creating Live CD : Unable to install: [('file /sbin/halt conflicts 
between attempted installs of sysvinit-2.86-22.i386 and 
upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.i386', (6, '/sbin/halt', 0L)),
......


Looks like redhat-lsb requires things like /sbin/shutdown which are 
provided by both sysvinit and upstart.  Since upstart is "shorter" I 
believe it wins these.

Not sure how yum should be told that sysvinit is the preferred package 
to satisfy these dependencies.

(Or perhaps the problem is something completely different, I'm no expert 
here).

My anaconda install didn't complain, but installed upstart by default 
instead of sysvinit - not sure that this is expected.


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