Bug 203344

Summary: Anaconda crashes when can't find kickstart file on ISO
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component: anacondaAssignee: David Lehman <dlehman>
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0215 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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anaconda-ks-look-through-cdroms-rhel4.patch none

Description Bastien Nocera 2006-08-21 12:58:49 UTC 
anaconda-10.1.1.46-1

When passing "ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg" to anaconda, to make it find a kickstart file on
an ISO image, we get a segfault, after the message:
* getFileFromBlockDevice((null), isolinux/ks.cfg)

This is the same problem that was reported on the anaconda list:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2006-May/msg00041.html

Attached is a patch from Paul Dwyer <pdwyer> to backport the
functionality (looking through CD devices, rather than failing if the first one
can't be found, thus avoiding the crash) to RHEL4.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-08-21 12:58:50 UTC 
Created attachment 134558 [details]
anaconda-ks-look-through-cdroms-rhel4.patch
Comment 2 Jay Turner 2006-08-22 02:35:44 UTC 
QE ack for 4.5.
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2006-08-23 21:37:44 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2006-08-23 21:37:46 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 5 Don Bodle 2006-12-05 12:49:12 UTC 
If it matters, this is an issue for me.  We have a customized process for
installing across our customer base, and it is CD based.  We are moving to 64
bit IBM blades (HS21, LS41) and ran into this problem.  There is a workaround
for our situation: using ks=hd:scd0:/ks.cfg, but that reduces our abilitly to
maintain a generic process across platforms.  I'd like to see this resolved
officially sooner rather than later.
Don Bodle
Sr Systems Developer
The Reynolds and Reynolds Company
Comment 8 David Lawrence 2007-04-10 20:32:08 UTC 
Verified fixed by QE in latest snapshot release.
Comment 9 David Lehman 2007-04-19 14:40:46 UTC 
*** Bug 237111 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-05-01 17:25:16 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0215.html