[Mageia-dev] beta 4 installer notes

Wed Apr 10 06:58:04 CEST 2013

On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 06:38 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> On 10 April 2013 03:44, Liam R E Quin <liam at holoweb.net> wrote:
+> > I tried installing Mageia 3 Beta 4 on an ASUS 64-bit PC,
+> > a network install.
+> >
+> > A couple of problems I noticed:
+> >
+> > (1) insmoding xen_blkfront failed
+> >     /lib/libDrakX/modules.pm line 96
+> >
+> >     (I was not using a virtual machine, this was an install onto
+> >     a physical PC)
+> 
+> already fixed
+
+cool
+
+> 
+> > (4) the installer doesn't redraw itself on an expose event,
+> >     so if you switch to another virtual console and back,
+> >     the installer is then a blank rectangle with rounded
+> >     corners, sometimes for quite a long time (minutes)
+> 
+> there's one single process, so expose event are managed once in a while
+> in rpm callback
+
+Just pointing it out :)
+> 
+> > (5) a message,
+> >     "script failed for mailman_2.1.15-3.mga3-x86-64:"
+> >
+> >     (there was a blank line underneath but no more text)
+> 
+> the exact error should be in your /root/drakx/install.log (also included
+> in your /root/drakx/report.bug.xz)
+
+it is, but the blank message doesn't seem very polished.
+
+[[
+/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.J7elL9: line 31: crontab: command not found
+/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: inet_protocols: disabling IPv6 name/address
+support: Address family not supported by protocol
+postalias: warning: inet_protocols: disabling IPv6 name/address support:
+Address family not supported by protocol
+su: Insufficient credentials to access authentication data
+su: Insufficient credentials to access authentication data
+%post(mailman-2.1.15-3.mga3.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
+mailman-2.1.15-3.mga3.x86_64
+]]
+
+Thanks for replying.
+
+Liam
+
+
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