Topic: SME v5.5

[Jaap Altena]

I downloaded v5.5 and burned it to cd. Then I started the installation. All went well until the system restarted - it ended in a login-prompt, apparently because perl is not installed the way it should be... Does no-one ever test these cd-images?!

When I logged in as root, with password 'default', I tried to restart the installation process with the command '/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-install'. No luck, of course, because that still depends on perl being available...

Has anyone yet discovered how to complete the install? Help!

[gbl]

I´ve tired many Versions of SME on many PC´s. I don´t had any Problems. So I think your Image is corrupt. Pleas try to download the Image from another location.
Also check that your HArdware is compatible with RedHead 7.2

[Jaap Altena]

Hardware configuration is OK.
When v5.5 is installed as an upgrade over v4.1, the restart works fine, although the admin-screen is still partly corrupted. When v5.5 is installed as first-time install, the problem I described occurs. I have concluded that the image is not corrupted...
Any other suggestions?

[Terry Brummell]

Did you run the MD5 checksum on the image to confirm it is not corrupt?

[guestHH]

What makes you think your installation is not correct? Sounds to me that everything is ok.

What 'luck' are you looking for?

You probably set the console access to 'login' instead of 'admin'.
What happens if you enter '/sbin/e-smith/console' on the console as root?

Regards,
guestHH

[gbl]

Have you tired another Hardware?

[Jaap Altena]

Hardware configuration OK
ISO image OK

When I install v5.5 (and subsequently the upgrade to v5.5U2), the server installs OK, and I can get into the main menu. All options work fine, except 'Access server manager' which ends in just over three pages perl error messages. Looking inside the system, I discover a mixture of 5.5 and 5.6 references...
Probably someone got over-enthousiastic when submitting the 5.5U2 version, and did not test all the v5.6 inserts in the package.

Thank you all very much for your help - I'll just wait for a slightly more stable version... BTW: has any version ever actually been proclaimed stable?

[Charlie Brady]

Jaap Altena wrote:

> I downloaded v5.5 and burned it to cd. Then I started the
> installation. All went well until the system restarted - it
> ended in a login-prompt, apparently because perl is not
> installed the way it should be... Does no-one ever test these
> cd-images?!

Well, perhaps not you. Did you md5sum verify the image before you burned it, and the CDROM contents after you burned it?

Many thousands of people have installed v5.5 without problems. I've done so maybe a hundred times.

Charlie

[guestHH]

Charlie,

Would you be so kind to explain how to check the correct checksum of the download as well as the burned cd..?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
guestHH