Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] VL6.0-SOHO-A1.9.21

[Newtor <gen...@gm...>]

Hello,

First:
I've come across a strange issue I mentioned a while back but was unable to
reproduce. The issue is duplicity of partitions when choosing where to install VL.
I've been able to reproduce this issue with installer version 700, here's how:

     -Created three new partitions (/, /home, swap) with ext3 filesystem.
     -Get to 'Select which partitions to use for installation'
     -Click back, back (to the finding installation CD step)
     -Click 'Search Again'
     -Get back to 'Select which partitions to use for installation'
     -Should show duplicates at this point. For me, it shows a set of my non-swap
      partitions for each time I clicked 'Search Again'. For example, if I went back and
      clicked 'Search Again' 5 times I will see 11 partitions (/ and /home duplicated 5
      times each, and then my swap.

I'm guessing that it may just be related to an array key or variable not being
cleared properly. Basically it acts as though each time I 'Search Again' it adds
another set of available partitions to an array(?), rather than simply reassigning
the existing keys with the new information. Something like that, maybe.


Next:
User accounts are not created successfully during installation. I went with ext3
filesystems this time; 3 partitions (/, /home, swap). You can check the gui logs (
I removed package installation text to save message size). I did notice the
password creation error again that I mentioned a while back:

           ------ ERROR SAVING ROOT PASSWORD (Error details below) -------
          spawn passwd root

          ------- END OF ROOT PASSWORD ERROR -------

Couple items I see when creating passwords and users:
       spawn passwd root
       spawn passwd kparty
       spawn passwd kparty2

Also:
Even though it was not logged (not sure why) I remember always seeing a
messages to the effect of "group __username__ does not exist" after adding each
new user. I've always thought it odd that the procedure tries to do _something_
with a group using the username as the group name; perhaps this is normal, but I
thought I'd mention it.


Last, just a couple notes regarding the first boot after installation:
      -Services that fail: vmware, wifi-radar; route/network on same line (is normal?)
      -Akonadi control/server fail to start in KDE, first boot.


Cheers, newt

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 8:12:00 AM, you wrote:

ML> I need something better than that though.
ML> see if you can catch the error.
ML> Watch the terminal output when running trhough the password steps.

ML> I can't reproduce this. I want to see what your terminals say

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