[Users] X11 and vncserver under VPS

[Kir Kolyshkin]

Chris Schultz wrote:

> Kir,
>
> Thanks for all of your help and valuable information.  As a learning 
> exercise I too am trying to build my own fedora-core-4 templates using 
> RedHat's "server" install as a baseline  I noticed the dummy package 
> you mentioned below, but I also noticed vzdev throws things off a bit 
> as well.  It advertizes the 'dev' capability without a version.  
> RedHa't own udev specifies a version of 3.2-7 and some packages 
> request that.  I ended up going through a painful exercise of 
> iteratively removing packages from my template's .list file and an 
> exclude statement in my yum.conf to get around the conflicts. 

Can you tell me which packages requires specific version of dev so I can 
fix it.

>
> Would it be possible to get the spec files for both packages?

Sources of all the three RPMS we supply in vz-addons are available from 
template metadata source at
http://download.openvz.org/template/metadata/fedora-core-4/src/

>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> On 11/21/05, *Kir Kolyshkin* <kir at sw.ru <mailto:kir at sw.ru>> wrote:
>
>     Eric,
>
>     First, when submitting a bug report or a problem description please
>     always try to be as specific as possible. In this case it would be
>     helpful if you tell exactly the packages you have installed, the
>     commands you use to do that etc.
>
>     Second, the problem is xorg-x11 requires kernel-drm thus kernel is
>     about
>     to be installed but it conflicts with our 'dev' package. If you have
>     used vzyum or yum it just bails out telling there is a conflict.
>
>     Anyway, to solve the problem some trick is needed. The trick is to
>     have
>     a package installed which claims it provides kernel-drm = 4.3.0 so
>     xorg-x11 dependencies will be satisfied. So I have an updated
>     version of
>     dummy package (which is created just for those tricks) that does just
>     that; it is attached.
>
>     What you need to do with it is:
>     1. Place it to /vz/template/fedora-core/4/i386/vz-addons/ directory.
>     2. cd to that directory and run createrepo as root (if you do not have
>     createrepo installed you can take rpm from
>     http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/generate/)
>     <http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/generate/%29>
>     3. Update template cache by running vzpkgcache (check that this very
>     version of dummy package is put into cache), then create a new VPS
>     and
>     go on from there (vzyum VPSID install xorg-x11 vnc-server).
>
>     Restoring your existing VPS would be a bit more complex...
>
>     Eric L. Sammons wrote:
>
>     >First, let me start by stating I am fairly new to OpenVZ.  Now,
>     last night I
>     >tried to use the pre packaged template for Fedora-core-4-default,
>     which worked
>     >fine, then I attempted to install vncserver + X11.  These
>     installs all seemed
>     >to work fine, I did notice that a new fedora kernel was
>     installed.  Well, at
>     >some point I decided to vzctl restart <vpsid> and it seemed the
>     image started,
>     >but I could not access it via ssh or vzctl enter.  When hardware
>     0 reboots it
>     >shows OpenVZ starts, but that VPS 101 fails to start.
>     >
>     >So any idea how I might set up X11 under a VPS?  Also, along the
>     same note, is
>     >there a good reference on how to build my own template?
>     >
>     >Thanks!
>     >
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Kir Kolyshkin <kir at sw.ru>  ICQ 7551596