Kickstart hangs when removing sendmail

Elazar Rosenthal elazar at panix.com
Fri Jan 28 15:52:25 UTC 2005


At least on my FC3 system:
sendmail is needed by a number of other packages
# rpm -e sendmail
error: Failed dependencies:
         /usr/sbin/sendmail is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
         smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) mdadm-1.6.0-2.i386

It is possible that this dependency is keeping it around
Elazar Rosenthal


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Micah Parrish wrote:

> It would be helpful if you posted your kickstart file, or as much of it
> as possible.
>
> --Micah Parrish
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 23:30 -0500, Chris Mckenzie wrote:
>> 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 at redhat.com
>> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] 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 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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