Bug 336761

Summary:	Loader dialog does not properly retry after failing to fetch a kickstart
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Will Woods <wwoods>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Will Woods 2007-10-17 21:40:00 UTC

In testing bug 334881, I tried to run a kickstart install with this on the
commandline: 
  ks=nfs://hank:/mnt/qa/scratch/wwoods/f8-default-ks.cfg

loader fails to fetch this file, and gives me the "Error downloading kickstart
file" dialog to allow me to fix the URI. I corrected it to:
  nfs:hank:/mnt/qa/scratch/wwoods/f8-default-ks.cfg
which *should* work - it works if I pass this on the boot commandline - but
loader doesn't retry the mount, so it doesn't work.

Here are the relevant log messages:

INFO    : doing kickstart... setting it up
INFO    : reverse name lookup worked
INFO    : url is //hank:/mnt/qa/scratch/wwoods/f8-default-ks.cfg
INFO    : file location: nfs:////hank:/mnt/qa/scratch/wwoods/f8-default-ks.cfg
ERROR   : failed to mount nfs source
[here I fix the parameter and hit OK]
ERROR   : getFileFromNfs: no client IP information
[the above message is emitted every time I hit OK]

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2007-10-19 14:41:45 UTC

This will be fixed in the next build of anaconda.