On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Aldo Foot <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> # rpm -V python >> package python is not installed > > You are saying that the affected system after fresh install appears to > not have the python package installed? If that is true that will break > far more than just firstboot..far more. In fact its pretty hard to > imagine having a desktop Fedora system without python installed. > > That's bad enough...but its worse..what you are telling me is not > self-consistent from an rpm based install process standpoint. Here's > is a summary of what you are saying to me, just for clarity. > > /usr/bin/python exists > /usr/bin/python2 exists > but the python package itself is not installed. > > That is inconsistent information. To clarify: /usr/bin/python does not exist /usr/bin/python2 exists and is an empty link to a non-existent /usr/bin/python binary. > rpm -qf /usr/bin/python will tell you which package(s) the rpm > system thinks "own" the /usr/bin/python file in the rpm sense. I know this is odd. I cannot even run a yum command on this system. Here's what I get: # ls -la /usr/bin/python ls: cannot access /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory # yum info python -bash: /usr/bin/yum: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory # yum list python -bash: /usr/bin/yum: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory # yum whatprovides python -bash: /usr/bin/yum: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory # yum install python -bash: /usr/bin/yum: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory # yum repolist all -bash: /usr/bin/yum: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory # ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/ total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1962 2008-11-06 12:06 fedora-rawhide.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1090 2008-11-06 12:06 fedora.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1108 2008-11-06 12:06 fedora-updates.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1181 2008-11-06 12:06 fedora-updates-testing.repo # rpm -qf /usr/bin/python error: file /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory # rpm -qf /usr/bin/python2 file /usr/bin/python2 is not owned by any package > If rpm does not return with a package name, then I'm not sure how you > get into that situation post-install. Unless the install process > itself flaked out and wasn't recording information into the rpmdb > during the rpm transaction at install time. I would have expected the > install to fail with some sort of error in that case. > > While its nice to know that your problem isn't firstboot itself, the > current picture painted by the available information doesn't make a > lot of sense to me. Unless there was some install time errors you > haven't told me me about...or you are probing the system from the > installer environment y mistake and not the system post-install. > > Very very odd. > -jef The only thing I did was to deselect some packages -see a previous email- other than that it was a click OK and Next operation. Nothing out of the ordinary. There are some errors in /var/log anaconda.log. Would this shed some light? **This is a partial log** 09:20:44 ERROR : unable to set timezone 09:20:45 INFO : moving (1) to step preinstallconfig 09:20:45 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /selinux on /mnt/sysimage/selinux with options defaults 09:20:45 WARNING : no dev package, going to bind mount /dev 09:20:45 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /dev on /mnt/sysimage/dev with options defaults,bind 09:20:45 INFO : self.hostname = localhost.localdomain 09:20:45 INFO : moving (1) to step installpackages 09:20:45 INFO : Preparing to install packages 09:23:06 WARNING : /usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py:562: GtkWarning: gtk_progress_set_percentage: assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0' failed self.progress.set_fraction (newval) 09:46:07 WARNING : /usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py:55: GtkWarning: gtk_progress_set_percentage: assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0' failed self.progress.set_fraction(pct) 09:46:08 INFO : moving (1) to step postinstallconfig 09:46:09 INFO : moving (1) to step writeconfig 09:46:09 INFO : Writing main configuration 09:46:09 ERROR : Error running /usr/sbin/authconfig: No such file or directory 09:46:09 ERROR : Error running ['--update', '--nostart', '--enableshadow', '--passalgo=sha512']: Error running /usr/sbin/authconfig: No such file or directory 09:46:09 INFO : self.hostname = localhost.localdomain 09:46:09 ERROR : Error running /usr/sbin/lokkit: No such file or directory 09:46:09 ERROR : lokkit run failed: Error running /usr/sbin/lokkit: No such file or directory 09:46:09 ERROR : Error running /usr/sbin/lokkit: No such file or directory 09:46:09 ERROR : lokkit run failed: Error running /usr/sbin/lokkit: No such file or directory 09:46:10 INFO : moving (1) to step firstboot 09:46:10 INFO : moving (1) to step instbootloader 09:46:14 INFO : vg VolGroup00, size is 78304, pesize is 32768 09:46:14 INFO : vg VolGroup00, size is 78304, pesize is 32768 09:46:14 INFO : vg VolGroup00, size is 78304, pesize is 32768 09:46:14 INFO : vg VolGroup00, size is 78304, pesize is 32768 09:46:14 INFO : moving (1) to step writeksconfig 09:46:14 INFO : Writing autokickstart file 09:46:16 INFO : moving (1) to step writeregkey 09:46:16 INFO : moving (1) to step setfilecon 09:46:16 INFO : setting SELinux contexts for anaconda created files 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/rpm/platform doesn't exist 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/rpm/macros doesn't exist 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda doesn't exist 09:46:16 WARNING : /lib64 doesn't exist 09:46:16 WARNING : /usr/lib64 doesn't exist 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/blkid.tab doesn't exist 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/blkid.tab.old doesn't exist 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /etc/mtab to False 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /etc/fstab to False 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /etc/resolv.conf to False 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/modprobe.conf doesn't exist 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/modprobe.conf~ doesn't exist 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /var/log/wtmp to False 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /var/run/utmp to False 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/crypttab doesn't exist 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /dev/log to False 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /var/lib/rpm to False 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of / to False 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/raidtab doesn't exist 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/mdadm.conf doesn't exist 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /etc/hosts to False 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /etc/sysconfig/network to False 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to False 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /root/install.log to False 09:46:16 INFO : set fc of /root/install.log.syslog to False 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/shadow doesn't exist 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/shadow- doesn't exist 09:46:16 WARNING : /etc/gshadow doesn't exist This is odd, because if I have not problems with the ISO I downloaded two days ago. I've been seeing too many odd things during the last few days that I have not seen before. I'm making a list. Maybe the download of the bad dvd was incomplete or there was data corruption in the process. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines