Rudi Chiarito wrote: > I found a few more problems with anaconda and kickstart files. It took me > a whole day to figure them out, also because I had never programmed in > Python before. ;) > > First of all, as soon as I managed to find how to run anaconda in test > mode (which is not THAT much helpful, anyway), I noticed that the > kickstart was being removed every time I ran the installer! Line 308 of > anaconda says "os.unlink(kickstart)"; I wonder why?!? > > Then, if I passed the exact name of a card to "xconfig" in the kickstart > file, I'd get an error at line 174 of file xf86config.py, which says > 'self.devID = self.vidCards[self.primary]["NAME"]'. As far as I can tell, > that's trying to access key NAME in the array of associative arrays > vidCards at position self.primary (which equals to 0). The problem is > that vidCards is set, a few lines before, to a string (the parameter > "card"). I solved this by replacing "self.vidCards = [card]" with > "self.vidCards = self.cards (card)" (method "cards" returns an > associative array matching the string it is passed). I had still > problems, though, because vidCards is still NOT an array of arrays. It > looks to me as if the code in method "cards" is quite ambiguous, as it > can return a single array or the whole card database (look at the two > statements at the very end of it, "return card" and "return cards"). I'm > not a Python expert, so I can't really tell how this should be fixed. > I've found, though, that removing "[self.primary]" is enough here. > I tried Rudi's patch (and the mouse patch in todo.py) but it still blew up trying to write the X config file later on. Not knowing Python, I found a wizard who suggested a different change which worked for me (I only wanted to install the "Generic VGA compatible" card and "Generic Monitor" as part of a hands-free network install for a Beowulf cluster) Anyway, my wizard said that the problem was not with line 174, but with the line 170 which Rudi had also noted. It reads self.vidCards = [card] and line 174 should be replaced so as to read: self.vidCards = [self.cards(card)] which creates the array needed in line 174 (and also later on). Sorry the above is not in proper context diff patch format, but I wanted to get this minor correction out there to follow up on Rudi's original stellar effort. /John ----- John Gerth - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
