On Thu, 28 May 1998, Chris Evans wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Installed RH5.1, thought I'd best make sure you all know about a couple of
> irritating bugs so they don't bite you.
>
...
> 2) INSTALLER HANGS IN REPRODUCABLE PLACES FOR ~5MINS.
>
> The installer seems to hang every time it has to execute
> "/usr/sbin/groupadd" and "/usr/sbin/useradd". The hang recovers but can
> take ~6mins. The hang occurs worst at "linuxconf" RPM. One person already
> reported an aborted install due to impatience at this stage. "postgresql"
> and "dev" packages also affect.
> On a related note, "sendmail" hangs for a bit at install trying to
> execute "newaliases". Also recovers.
The problem is that useradd and groupadd sends a message to syslog daemon,
that isn't running! It's the instalation and there are not syslogd!
The socket timeouts and the message is sent to console...
This is very irritant and occurs also in RH 5.0 with shadow-utils updated.
I think that newaliases (sendmail) try to resolve the hostname and
then timeouts... The install script should avoid running newaliases.
Regards,
Wanderlei Antonio Cavassin
Brasil
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