I have finally gotten around to installing 11.3 x86_64 on a deskside PC. All went well with the installation until the last package, fetchmsttfonts-11.3-1.1.5-noarch, failed to connect to a server and produced a “Command exited with status 5” error. I have not yet clicked the “OK” button on the error popup. Is there any way to rescue this installation?
I had tried once before, and had clicked the “OK” button before looking things over to see what was the issue since I’d figured it was nothing that couldn’t be sorted out later. However, it aborted the install with the system largely unconfigured. I attempted to fix it but gave up and started a new install from scratch, which failed as described above.
I was doing a netinstall, using the oss, non-oss, and update repos.
I would like to avoid having to restart the install yet another time since I do not have the packages cached locally and most certainly do not want to go thru the package selection phase again since I’d picked quite a few additional packges. If I can rescue this one it would be great. If I have to start over, is there a way to import the list of packages from this install into the installer during a hew install?
Hi Phil and welcome to this forum;
You say you were doing a net install. Was this using the “net” installer from openSUSE 11.3? Did you verify the checksum of the installer you downloaded? What kind of internet connection do you have (wired, wireless, etc.)? Also, please describe what the hardware specifications are for the computer. We’ll try to give you more help after that.
I was using the openSUSE 11.3 netinstall CD over a wired ethernet connection to a DSL internet link. All checksums were OK. I didn’t include the system specs since I didn’t believe they were relevant to the question at hand. The system is a c2006 Dell OptiPlex GX620 w 2 SATA drives. I pre-partitioned the drives since I am very particular about my disk partition setup (in particular, the automatic partitioning proposal by the openSUSE installer was particularly horrid!). There are 6 NTFS partitions and all of the Linux partitions are ext4. There were no errors other than the fetchmsttfonts error at the very end of the package installation phase. Let me know if you need any further info.
It’s already too late. The install has erred out. As I said, the first time thru when I dismissed the error popup, the entire install aborted back to text mode and I was unable to clean up after that. I’m not worred about the msttfonts. In fact, I’m really surprised that the install aborts over such a slight problem. I’d just like to avoid having to start over from scratch a third time.
BTW, I found that there have been 2 bugs filed against this problem and that it is fixed in 11.4*. However, there was no mention of workarounds for 11.3 and it looks like there was no intent to fix it there. The bugids are: 638734 and 633447.
What would you recommend I do with them? I know what to do if I start over from scratch again, and I do have an 11.3 install DVD available. It just seems a shame to have to throw away this install when it is sooooo close to being complete. I may just have to do that though [sigh …].