4.1 Frequently Asked Questions

It says "Could not open the iconv conversion handle"

Such message can be seen during the beginning of real commit of disk layout modifications. The operations is aborted but fortunately no disk change and/or damage is done. You are missing some files contained in glibc package:

/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules

This file is always required.

/usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so and /usr/lib/gconv/IBM437.so

These two files are required when default filesystem options are used.

Generally the best way is to have accessible whole "/usr/lib/gconv directory but as this directory has around 2.5MB it may be inconvenient for you: Besides "gconv-modules" just keep all the files for the encodings you've set in parameter codepage for all filesystems, one by one.

During autogen phase it fails: error while copying ...

These messages will appear only when you have used copy, rpm or rpmtest argument for autogen script run. Exact output will be:

automake: configure.in: installing ./install-sh
    error while copying

automake: configure.in: installing ./mkinstalldirs
    error while copying

automake: configure.in: installing ./missing
    error while copying

Please upgrade your automake package to version 1.4a or higher (version 1.4 still has this bug).