Bug 216641

Summary: kickstart installation hangs while installing RHEL5 beta2 server on x86_64 machine
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: YangKun <ykun>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
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Version: 5.0CC: yshao
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHEL5-Server-20061207 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-12-21 06:19:12 UTC Type: ---
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the screenshot when the installation hung none

Description YangKun 2006-11-21 10:17:39 UTC 
Description of problem:
I created a ks file to install RHEL5beta2, this ks file works well for i386
platform, but it doesn't work for x86_64 , the installation hung at 75%
finished(while installing rpm-4.4.2-33.el5-x86_64) . are there any differeces of
kickstart installation between i386 and x86_64 ?

Attached is the screenshot when the installation hung.

Following is my kickstart file:
-----------------------------------
text
key CS
keyboard us
lang en_US
langsupport --default en_US en_US
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
nfs --server=10.66.0.87 --dir=/tmp/virt/install_media
rootpw 111111
skipx
firewall --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
selinux --disabled
timezone Asia/Shanghai
bootloader
clearpart --initlabel
autopart
firstboot --disable
halt

%packages
@admin-tools
@base
@base-x
@core
@development-libs
@development-tools
@editors
@gnome-desktop
@gnome-software-development
@text-internet
@web-server
@x-software-development
PyXML
elfutils-libs
elfutils
rpm-build
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How reproducible:
install RHEL5 beta2 server for i386 and x86_64 using the above ks file
Comment 1 YangKun 2006-11-21 10:17:40 UTC 
Created attachment 141748 [details]
the screenshot when the installation hung
Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2006-11-21 16:10:23 UTC 
Do you see any error messages on tty3 or tty4?
Comment 3 YangKun 2006-12-21 06:19:12 UTC 
it seems a package dependency problem?  Any way, I checked with the latest RHEL5
build and changed the "%packages" to a smallest set of packages and this issue
no longer exist.