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[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>]

Damien Mascord a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I have just installed the x86 486 ISO.  The installer is setup much more
> nicely than last time I tried (about a year ago).  Congrats on the
> organization of the menus and the steps to install, it's quite clean now!

Thanks :-)

> 1) snd_wavefront and some other .ko kernel module was not present on the
> ISO or the kernel "copied" accross the live system, and hence generated
> errors on boot.

Can you tell me what needs to be enabled in kernel.config?

> 2) g++ is showing version 0 while installing... this is quite weird, not
> sure if it's a problem or not :)

It's not a problem. g++ is really version 0 in the grimoire I used :-)

> 3) At the end of resurect portion, there is a one line:
> Spell  is missing.

Correct. This is a bug: http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8471

> Which seems to indicate that some array processing in the bash is a bit
> funny
> 4) Since the CD doesn't have a "boot through mode" (ie, boot to hard
> drive by default, press a key to boot from CD), it would be great if the
> installer could "eject" the CD upon first reboot

Right. I though about this a long time ago. The main problem is that the 
installer would need to umount the CD before ejecting it and right now, 
it is not possible :-(

> 5) The enable services section is a bit confusing, especially since some
> of the smgl services aren't enabled by default!  Perhaps there should be
> a "recommended" marker to say you really should start these services if
> you want things to work... like network !  Also, short descriptions
> would be nice :)

If someone would like to tell me the defaults, i'll be happy to set them.

> 6) For some reason, eth0.dev wasn't correctly created, and when booting
> the device didn't come up properly.  Is it possible for the installer to
> detect what ethernet devices are present, and auto-create some default
> .dev files?  which we then go and edit ?

Known bugs: http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8423
Already corrected. Just update your stable grimoire to get it.

> 7) /tmp has the suid bit set, which means that sorcery gets all funny,
> and dies when you try to do a system-update or upgrade or whatever... 
> cleanse has a cow too, but can't seem to fix the suid bit set on the
> /tmp directory.  chmod -s /tmp fixes this issue...

? /tmp, as well as /var/tmp needs to have the suid and sgid bits. 
Otherwise, user A will be able to create and user B will be able to 
delete (he is not the owner of the file, but he has write permissions in 
the directory). What sorcery errors are reported?

> 8)  Since openssh is an optional spell to install, I chose that, since I
> would like to ssh into the box once installed (I only have 1 monitor,
> and no KVM :)).  After starting the box, telinit run sshd restart gives
> the error:
> sshd - provider for facility network not configured.

Correct. This is a bug: http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8473

> Other than the above things, it seems smooth :)
> Cheers for your hard work!

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru