Kickstart hangs when removing sendmail

[Micah Parrish]

I think you can exclude sendmail by putting

-sendmail

in the packages section of your kickstart file.

--Micah Parrish
micah.parrish at 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 at redhat.com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] 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
> 
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