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Title: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 02, 2020, 04:35:45 am
Hi

I'm trying to install ANPM and with it RPM/YUM on a VM with Warp 4.52  (14.106).
I'm stuck on a loop trying to install RPM/YUM (Pic 1-Loop.png). The only strange thing that I see is that when it asks me to shut down (and I click OK), REXXAPI.DLL give me an error (2-Error.png).

Any ideas?

Regards
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Dave Yeo on January 02, 2020, 05:19:31 am
Duplicate REXXAPI.DLL? Or similar with the older one taking precedence.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Dariusz Piatkowski on January 02, 2020, 04:16:55 pm
Hi Martin,

It's been a while since I went through this, but I started with 4.52 as well, so here are some suggestions:

1) Take a look at the main AN RPM/YUM Wiki
https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/ (https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/)

2) Take a look at the AN RPM/YUM 'Best Practices'
https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/rpm-yum-best-practices/ (https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/rpm-yum-best-practices/)

3) Take a look at the AN 'Non-Updated Systems' Wiki
https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/non-updated-systems/ (https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/non-updated-systems/)

4) Take a look at the AN 'How to install ANPM when there is an existing Python installation'
https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/install-anpm-existing-python-installation/ (https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/install-anpm-existing-python-installation/)

This actually was something that I ran into, so we documented the work-around in that Wiki.

Here are the various REXXxxx DLLs I have on my system, all present in the \os2\dll :

Directory of G:\os2\dll

 9-06-00  12:42p    266031           0  REXX.DLL
 9-06-00  12:42p     40995           0  REXXAPI.DLL
 9-06-00  12:42p     79348           0  REXXCRT.DLL
 9-06-00  12:42p      8360           0  REXXINIT.DLL
 9-06-00  12:42p     68119           0  REXXUTIL.DLL

REXXAPI.DLL is only present in that single location.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 02, 2020, 04:25:00 pm
Hi

I just checked the REXX*.DLLs and I only have one and I'm on the same level.

By the way, I'm installing ANPM 1.0.4.

I also checked the POPUPLOG (Attached pic)

Regards
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Andreas Schnellbacher on January 02, 2020, 07:02:16 pm
Have you checked the prerequisites (https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/)? Is kLIBC Pathrewriter installed?
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 02, 2020, 09:21:47 pm
Have you checked the prerequisites (https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/)? Is kLIBC Pathrewriter installed?

...no... it is not installed  :-[

I installed it, rebooted, and run again ANPM, follow the RPM/YUM first install procedure again and got the same error :(

I also notices that at this instance of the install, the config.sys still do not have the path for usr/lib and any others, while the usr/lib directory had been created and populated with some files like yum.exe and rpm.exe. Also, not home directory on the config.sys yet.

Regards

Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 02, 2020, 09:32:22 pm
Hi

I got some progress. I set usr/lib on my libpath and rebooted. Turned on ANPM and it complains that is not right and will try to fix my config.sys, he did it. Rebooted again and now it works...

But.. I don't know what is trying to access the D: drive (which is empty, no partition, not mounted) and gives me this errors frequently.  (See attached). But not only on ANPM, on startup.cmd is also tryuing to access D: while is nothing calling d: there.   This VM has a C: drive only and vm CD-ROM mounted on e:

I will be reverting the VM and try to install ANPM again.

Regards
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 02, 2020, 09:55:26 pm
uhm.. something is wrong with the VM

Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 02, 2020, 10:12:13 pm
The installation of klib pathwire triggered the errors from D: drive.

It added this on the config.sys.
  SET LIBC_HOOK_DLLS=C:\OS2\DLL\klibccfg.dll@_kLIBCInitPath!pathrewrite

Any hints?

Regards
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Dariusz Piatkowski on January 02, 2020, 10:40:44 pm
Martin,

The installation of klib pathwire triggered the errors from D: drive.

It added this on the config.sys.
  SET LIBC_HOOK_DLLS=C:\OS2\DLL\klibccfg.dll@_kLIBCInitPath!pathrewrite

Do you have 'kLIBC Pathwriters' installed? If so, what are the actual kLIBC path mappings you see?

See what I have currently defined on my machine...not saying this is 100% correct, but that's what present there along with the following environment setups in my CONFIG.SYS (FYI - Y:\ is my ramdisk, G:\ is my OS2 partition):

Code: [Select]
REM [ Temporary and Log directory ]
SET TMPDIR=G:\var\tmp
SET TEMP=Y:\TMP
SET TMP=Y:\TMP
SET FT2_LOGGING_FILEBASE=G:\TMP\LOG
SET LOGFILES=G:\TMP\LOG
...
REM [ Below are the YUM_RPM & ArcaNoae Package Manager variables ]
SET YUM_RPM_ETC=G:\ETC
SET UNIXROOT=G:
SET LIBC_HOOK_DLLS=G:\OS2\DLL\klibccfg.dll@_kLIBCInitPath!pathrewrite
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 02, 2020, 11:22:43 pm
Hi

The 'kLIBC Pathwriters' that I installed (klibccfg_1_0_2_1.exe) did not added TEMP, TMPDIR, LOGFILES on the config.sys.

I add those manually and the D: drive issues are gone.

Thanks. I will keep testing the ANPM.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Andreas Schnellbacher on January 03, 2020, 01:53:54 am
The 'kLIBC Pathwriters' that I installed (klibccfg_1_0_2_1.exe) did not added TEMP, TMPDIR, LOGFILES on the config.sys.

I add those manually and the D: drive issues are gone.
Strange. I've just checked the installation .wis script. It contains:
Code: [Select]
      REGISTERCLASS="kLIBCConfig|$(1)\klibccfg.dll"
      CREATEOBJECT="REPLACE kLIBCConfig|kLIBC Pathrewriters|<WP_CONFIG>|OBJECTID=<WP_KLIBCPRW>"
      CONFIGSYS="SET LIBC_HOOK_DLLS=$(1)\klibccfg.dll@_kLIBCInitPath!pathrewrite"
      WRITEPROFILE="$(ETC)\klibcfg.ini\REWRITE\/etc|%ETC%"
      WRITEPROFILE="$(ETC)\klibcfg.ini\REWRITE\/var/log|%LOGFILES%"
      WRITEPROFILE="$(ETC)\klibcfg.ini\REWRITE\/tmp|%TMP%"

That looks as if it should have added the CONFIG.SYS entry and created %ETC%\KLIBCFG.INI.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: tthoms on January 19, 2020, 02:31:17 am
Hi Martin:

Do I understand correctly that you got ANPM to work?  I have the same problem that you reported initially, and have not found a resolution.  If it is working for you, could you walk me through how you did it?
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Doug Bissett on January 19, 2020, 05:15:41 am
Hi Martin:

Do I understand correctly that you got ANPM to work?  I have the same problem that you reported initially, and have not found a resolution.  If it is working for you, could you walk me through how you did it?

Please READ the section on ANPM, under SOFTWARE (page down), at https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/ (https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/).
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: tthoms on January 19, 2020, 06:28:09 am
Hi Doug:
    Thanks for the link.  I have read that page, and the software section.  Maybe I'm missing something, but none of the information seems to help my particular situation.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Andreas Schnellbacher on January 19, 2020, 01:31:25 pm
The 'kLIBC Pathwriters' that I installed (klibccfg_1_0_2_1.exe) did not added TEMP, TMPDIR, LOGFILES on the config.sys.
Martin, I've read what you wrote again. My answer doesn't seem to match your problem.

AFAIR, the temp dir entries in CONFIG.SYS are added by the installation of ArcaOS. At least that's what I remember for eCS.

I guess that should be added to the prerequisites. I would create an entry in the bug tracker, because AFAIR, also non-ArcaOS systems are supported with ANPM.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Dariusz Piatkowski on January 19, 2020, 04:26:35 pm
Hi Travis,
Hi Doug:
    Thanks for the link.  I have read that page, and the software section.  Maybe I'm missing something, but none of the information seems to help my particular situation.

What are the specifics of what you are seeing?

I ask b/c on the surface (symptom wise) it may look like the same issue Martin had, details may tell a different story.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 19, 2020, 05:14:13 pm
Hi

My issue seem to was that on a plain OS/2 Warp 4.52 VM, just by installing WarpIN 1.0.22, kLIBC Pathrewriters, 1.0.2 and ANPM 1.04, was not was enough to RPM/YUM and ANPM to run fine.
I did other config.sys tweaking for it to work, but I can not recall the exact steps. I had to set all the unixroot stuff, home, temp, etc and tweak that until it worked.

I will need to do the same experiment again to see what was missing on the config.sys.

Regards
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 19, 2020, 05:59:20 pm
Hi

I tried it again to get the same error.

The plain VM with OS/2 has on its config.sys:
- SET ETC=C:\MPTN\ETC
- SET TMP=C:\TCPIP\TMP

On my plain OS/2 Warp 4.52 (14.106) I installed WarpIn 1.0.22 and klibccfg_1_0_2_1.exe
It only installed this on my config.sys
   SET LIBC_HOOK_DLLS=C:\OS2\DLL\klibccfg.dll@_kLIBCInitPath!pathrewrite
On the last line of the disorganized config.sys.
klibccfg.dll got copied on c:\OS2\DLL
- Reboot.

Now I run ANPM 1.0.4 exe installer
- supported libraries got installed on C:\OS2\APPS\DLL
- Reboot

Time to run ANPM
- Tells me that YUM/RPM are not installed.  Clicked Yes, selected i686
- Downloading file.  (rpm-yum-base-os2-i686-2019-08-24.exe)
- "Select base Path" - Selected C:
- Tells me that config.sys is changed. Press ok
- REXXAPI.DLL Error shows up. (Click end) (attached pic)
- Reboot

Run ANPM again
- It tells me that I don't have RPM/YUM and I get stuck in the ANPM loop asking me to reboot and tell I don't have RPM/YUM.

I got again to the same issue. Now I will tweak the config.sys again and put some attention.

Regards




Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 19, 2020, 06:35:43 pm
Hi

Next. I Removed from the config.sys
SET TMP=C:\TCPIP\TMP

and set at the end. (directories where already created with the RPM/YUM install attempt)
SET TMP=C:\var\temp
SET TEMP=C:\var\temp
SET TMPDIR=C:\var\temp
SET HOME=C:\Home
SET USER=Martini
SET UNIXROOT=C:

Added at the end of path ",:C:\USR\LOCAL\BIN;C:\USR\SBIN;C:\USR\BIN;" and libpath ".;C:\usr\local\lib;C:\usr\lib;"
- Reboot

Run ANPM and it gets angry. Yes, angry.  :D
- It tells me to fix my config.sys. I select "yes"
- Reboot

Run ANPM and it works.
- I did a "Yum Update All" and it starts updating all the stuff.

I'm still updating the files see if RPM/YUM and ANPM are working fine. I will install all firefox dependencies and try firefox 45.

Regards


Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Doug Bissett on January 19, 2020, 07:33:45 pm
Quote
Added at the end of path ",:C:\USR\LOCAL\BIN;C:\USR\SBIN;C:\USR\BIN;" and libpath ".;C:\usr\local\lib;C:\usr\lib;"
- Reboot

Run ANPM and it gets angry. Yes, angry.  :D
- It tells me to fix my config.sys. I select "yes"
- Reboot

Run ANPM and it works.

I find it amazing, that people still try to be smarter than package installers. The paths need to be in the order that ANPM insists on, for normal operation (and ANPM will, correctly, add the paths that you manually entered). That order can be modified, and ANPM can be set to ignore that, but there would need to be a very good reason to do that (perhaps a developer, working on updates to the RPM/YUM stuff), and you are likely to have weird problems, when you forget that you did it. As you noticed, after ANPM corrected your attempt to do it incorrectly, it works as it should.

Since RPM/YUM, doesn't (can't) clean up old files that it doesn't actually know about, you probably should analyze the OLD stuff, that RPM/YUM replaces, and remove older duplicates, before some program loads the wrong one, and something is broken until that wrong DLL is unloaded from memory. This is how you get a program to work perfectly, then it doesn't work, then it does again.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 19, 2020, 07:53:39 pm
I find it amazing, that people still try to be smarter than package installers.
Software can not get angry.  :o

You are missing the point. The point is not that I included on purpose at the end of the path and libpath the /usr to make ANPM fix that (maybe it would be shorter to added the path correctly on the first try). 

The point is that on a basic OS/2 Warp 4.52 machine, you can not install ANPM easily with the defaults "package installers".
But it seems that it was needed to have usr/bin on the path for ANPM to start working. And none of the "smart package installers" did that on this case. Or maybe it is the error I'm getting on REXXAPI.DLL.

All are welcome to try that and let me know if my VM is the one giving problems, or it is common for OS/2 Warp 4.52.

Regards
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Doug Bissett on January 19, 2020, 08:38:02 pm
Quote
The point is that on a basic OS/2 Warp 4.52 machine, you can not install ANPM easily with the defaults "package installers".
But it seems that it was needed to have usr/bin on the path for ANPM to start working. And none of the "smart package installers" did that on this case. Or maybe it is the error I'm getting on REXXAPI.DLL.

Did you follow the directions at: https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/ (https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/)? It tells you what needs to be done in different install scenarios.

While testing these things, I have started with no RPM/YUM installed, and installing ANPM put it all together for me. ANPM is installed by WarpIn. ANPM then determines if CONFIG.SYS entries need to be modified, and does it if necessary. Then it makes sure that a usable RPM/YUM install is present, and installs it new, if not, Then, it runs the YUM program, so the user can install whatever they need. One of the more difficult scenarios is if an old RPM/YUM is installed, but has never been used. The RPM/YUM install may be too old to work. The directions do describe what to do about that.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 20, 2020, 02:12:37 am
Did you follow the directions at: https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/ (https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/)? It tells you what needs to be done in different install scenarios.

Yes.

- Prerequisite - Checked.
- IMPORTANT: Systems with existing RPM & YUM which have not been updated recently (including fresh eCS installations) - DO NOT APPLY ON THIS CASE
- Initial setup of RPM & YUM. For systems with existing Python installations - DO NOT APPLY ON THIS CASE
- On systems with no existing RPM & YUM installation....  - This is the case but it explain you what the installer does, not any extra things you need to do.
- Post-bootstrap tasks. Reinstall bootstrapped packages - I was not able to reach to this part. (without doing the undocumented tweak I just did for ANPM to work)

A person reported to me that he was not able to install ANPM on a plain OS/2 Warp 4.52 (systems with no existing RPM & YUM installation) , that is why I started doing this to see my results.

Regards
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 20, 2020, 03:02:05 am
Hi

At the end I completed the exercise to install firefox 45.9 on an OS/2 Warp 4.52 VM machine.

With ANPM I installed the prerequisites.
- pango  (includes fontconfig, pixman, cairo), hunspell, libicu, libjpeg, libkai, libvpx.

After that I unpacked and copied firefox-45.9.0-4.oc00.pentium4.7z
The easiest way for me to get files without the internet was to create an ISO CD-ROM file with the installers files from the Host machine and mount it on the OS/2 guest. (here it is the very basic ISO file (https://archive.org/download/basicprogramsos2warp4vm20200119))

Regards
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Dave Yeo on January 20, 2020, 03:40:48 am
When I first installed RPM/YUM on Warp v4, I already had UNIXROOT set to pointing to an EMX developer setup, talk about fun.
As for RPM's with no internet, or really bad internet, I found the simplest is to just have a local repository.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: tthoms on January 21, 2020, 09:47:15 am
Martin, you are a beautiful man!

It seems to have worked!

Thank you so much for all of your effort..
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Luey123 on November 18, 2020, 04:44:31 pm
Hi,
This is my first post on this forum 😊

This also resolve problem I had on install of eCs 2.1 on VirtualBox.
ANPM had error that loop every time I try to run it. It was messaging that YUM/RPM is not installed.
I tried everything but nothing was working.
So I found this instruction on OS/2 wiki and tried it on my eCs 2.1 VM.

So after installing ANPM and then from it YUM/RPM I edit config.sys and ad this:
LIBPATH=C:\USR\LOCAL\LIB;C:\USR\LIB;
PATH=C:\USR\BIN;
SET UNIXROOT=C:

And it worked! 😊
Only everytime I run ANPM it was messaging about changing config.sys.
Since I done it myself I was clicking “NO”, but this message get irritating so finally I click “YES” and it still works.

I was able to update all repositories. Install Firefox, SeaMonkey and VLC…… and then run into some problem but describe it different thread 😊
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Andreas Schnellbacher on November 18, 2020, 05:31:54 pm
LIBPATH=C:\USR\LOCAL\LIB;C:\USR\LIB;
You should better ensure that one segment with a single dot is added to LIBPATH. The default place is at the begin: LIBPATH=.;LIBPATH=C:\USR\LOCAL\LIB;... but some experienced ones of us prefer adding it to the end: LIBPATH=...;.;

If the dot is not added, many programs that come with additional DLLS in the dir of the EXE won't find them.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Andi B. on November 18, 2020, 05:56:45 pm
Quote
Only everytime I run ANPM it was messaging about changing config.sys.
This can be changed in the ANPM options. "Ansicht" "Einstellungen" "Pfadüberprüfung überspringen" - in English probably 'View' 'Setting' ....

Libpath - since a while I personally prefer P:\USR\LOCAL\LIB;P:\USR\LIB;.;<here comes the rest>. P: is my UNIXROOT. This ensures that my own build libraries are loaded if available P:\USR\LOCAL\LIB, if not the official RPM libs are loaded (P:\USR\LIB) and only if there is no match there then some libs from some weird programs (.) get loaded. So let's say if I start some very old weird_app which came with its own version of libc063 in its own weird_app directory it will use the current version from P:\USR\LIB. Either because some other program has the right one loaded before or cause it finds libc063 in P:\USR\LIB before it looks into it's own (.) directory. At least that's my understanding.

If this weird_app really needs it own outdated libc063 then it would not work and I know I've to start this special weird_app with LIBPATHSTRICT and BEGINLIBPATH. But it does not interfere with the rest of the system (other programs which benefits form the current libc063 forwarder).
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Luey123 on November 18, 2020, 06:18:02 pm
LIBPATH=C:\USR\LOCAL\LIB;C:\USR\LIB;
You should better ensure that one segment with a single dot is added to LIBPATH. The default place is at the begin: LIBPATH=.;LIBPATH=C:\USR\LOCAL\LIB;... but some experienced ones of us prefer adding it to the end: LIBPATH=...;.;

If the dot is not added, many programs that come with additional DLLS in the dir of the EXE won't find them.

I will corrected that! Thanks for info.
Title: Re: ANPM on Warp 4.52 - Error and Loop on RPM/YUM install
Post by: Martin Iturbide on November 18, 2020, 09:26:55 pm
Welcome to the forum Mieszko.

FYI: I created this article based on this thread. https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_Install_Firefox_on_Warp_4.52 (https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_Install_Firefox_on_Warp_4.52)

Since I didn't know exactly what was wrong with the ANPM installer on Warp 4.52 (Because it loops with the LIBPATH message). I intentionally put a "non recommended" setting on the PATH and LIBPATH so I can get the ANPM to complain and it will fix it. So, I understand that my settings are not the "good ones", but were the ones that broke ANPM loop on Warp 4.52 to let me install Firefox 45. Also remember that I haven't tried this on eCs.

Regards