[plug] Source Mage - I'm not having fun yet...

[Craig Dyke]

Jim

I have not run into all of the problems you have listed below but i can 
tell you that the
root password thing is normally due to the cast of pam being buggered 
before completing
and would require you to go into recovery mode and remove the securetty 
file from /etc.

In number 2 I ma unsure as to what you mean by 'automatic network 
access', but if
you were able to cast items then you must have some kind of internet 
access. The circular
dependancies you mentioned is an old version of Sorcery problem I believe.

And number 3 I have not had before.

Of the many times I have installed, for one reason or another, my 
process has been this:

1.   Follow CD instructions and defaults except for disk allocation 
(like to have my own config here)
      and boot loader (have found that choosing Lilo first even if going 
to grub later sems to work)
2.   Check Kernel config as default doesn't seem to catch some things 
like xfs or sata.
3.   Once CD has completed and you have rebooted into fresh system, 
update Sorcery ( sorcery -u ) as the first priority
      (I also normally change to 'devel' sorcery and 'test' grimoire)
4.   Download latest grimoire (scribe u)
5.   Update current spells to latest versions (sorcery -g)
6.   Rebuild entire system (sorcery -r)

Above process has worked on numerous occasions without incident.

I would also throw any curly questions you have to the sm-discuss list 
as all the gurus are very helpful.

Hope that helps :)

Craig

Jim Householder wrote:

> I've tried 3 times now to install Source Mage and have yet to get a 
> usable system.
>
> Try 1:  Installed OK.  Rebooted.  sorcery system-update.  Worked OK 
> until one of the mirrors failed to respond.  Each cast took forever - 
> long timeout, 3 retries, before moving on.  ^c to interrupt.
>
> sorcery went into some sort of error recovery and then hung.  reboot 
> command from second vt hung.  On reboot (hard reset) root password was 
> no longer accepted.
>
> Try 2:  Installed OK but no automatic network access.  Rebooted.  Cast 
> a few things OK.  cast emacs.  That resulted in a circular dependency 
> and a number of compiles failing due to paging problems.  Could not 
> get emacs, xorg or xfree86 due to said problems.
>
> Try 3:  Install failed.  Got to point in menu to select Done.  First 2 
> times it transferred a lot of stuff from the CD before rebooting.  
> This time reboot was immediate.
>
> I'm trying to use stable release 0.9.3, downloaded from 
> www.sourcemage.org.
> Perhaps it's corrupt.
>
> Jim :-(==
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