Bug 456981

Summary:	Verify installed software reports problems on fresh install
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Jan van Male <jan.van.male>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Peter Varkoly <varkoly>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Community User	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Error message from "Verify Installed Software" The "Show Log" dialog The "Show Log" dialog (more...)

Description Jan van Male 2008-12-05 22:32:23 UTC

I did a fresh install of opensuse11.1-rc1 where I left defaults mostly untouched I selecting kde 4.1 and most development packages.  After the install was succesful, I rebooted from the install DVD and selected "Repair Installed System" -> "Expert Tools" -> "Verify Installed Software".  The packages cups, hal, ntp and postfix are reported to have problems.  I've seen the same problem on a different, previous install which was slightly modified after the installation.

The expected behaviour here is to see no problems reported in packages at all, since this is an fresh install.

Additionally, selecting any of the 4 packages (cups, hal, ntp, postfix) for repair does not change the problem, these 4 packages are always reported to have problems.

Lastly, the "Show Log" button gives a log where the fourth column (Status) is not readable.  It contains lines like "...", "......G." ".....UG."

The same behaviour is seen when doing "Automatic Repair" or "Customized Repair"

Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2008-12-06 09:17:26 UTC

Please show the exact error messages.

You can also run in the installed system "rpm --verify package".

Comment 2 Jan van Male 2008-12-06 15:21:11 UTC

On the installed system:

# rpm --verify cups
# rpm --verify hal
# rpm --verify ntp
# rpm --verify postfix
S.5....T  c /etc/postfix/main.cf
S.5....T  c /etc/postfix/master.cf
#

I'll add screenshots from the GUI installer below.

Comment 3 Jan van Male 2008-12-06 15:33:31 UTC

Created attachment 258438 [details]
Error message from "Verify Installed Software"

Comment 4 Jan van Male 2008-12-06 15:34:46 UTC

Created attachment 258439 [details]
The "Show Log" dialog

Comment 5 Jan van Male 2008-12-06 15:35:37 UTC

Created attachment 258440 [details]
The "Show Log" dialog (more...)

Comment 6 Andreas Jaeger 2008-12-07 07:07:32 UTC

Jan, let's handle postfix here only.  Could you create different bugreports - one for each package?

This is nothing critical but should be fixed anyhow...

Comment 7 Jan van Male 2008-12-07 15:16:14 UTC

Ok, I opened 3 new reports.
cups: bug 457104
hal: bug 457105
ntp: bug 457106

I understand now that the "unreadable" fourth column is actually from rpm --verify.  It would be good to indicate that in the log window.  Something like "Output generated from rpm --verify PACKAGE" would have pointed me in the right direction.  Initially I suspected a problem with the width of the GUI column that garbled the output to dots (since dots are a common way to abbreviate long lines in Yast).

Comment 8 Peter Varkoly 2008-12-09 16:10:16 UTC

Both files are configuration files, which have to been configured after the system is installed. The configuration depends on the setup of the workstation or server resp.  Therefore I think this is not a bug.