Bug 40556

Created attachment 18290 [details]
Exception durin the Kickstart installation

Can you attach your kickstart file?  Seems like a possible dupe of bug #18648.

Here you go with the 'ks.cfg. file:
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Subject: 
        ks.cfg
   Date: 
        Tue, 15 May 2001 08:13:23 +0200
   From: 
        Marian Zurek <zurek.ch>
     To: 
        zurek




lang en_US

network  --static --ip 137.138.131.18 --netmask 255.255.0.0 --gateway
137.138.1.1 --nameserver 137.138.16.5

nfs --server linuxsoft.cern.ch --dir /redhat/redhat-7.1/os/i386

device ethernet eepro100

keyboard "us"

zerombr yes
clearpart --linux
part swap --size 126
install

mouse genericps/2

timezone --utc Europe/Zurich

xconfig --server "/etc/X11/X: symbolic link to ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86"
--monitor "samsung syncmaster 750(m)b"

rootpw --iscrypted $1$WItikl.B$642du.55p8AFWl8SqaalM0

auth --nisdomain gp_mimd.cern.ch --nisserver thetrough.cern.ch --useshadow

lilo --location mbr

%packages
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gftp
libglade
sane
plugger
firewall-config
dos2unix
xpat2
docbook-utils
audiofile-devel
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sudo
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mc
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at
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timeconfig
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ghostscript
stunnel
openafs

%post

Oh, ok.  The problem is clear.  You have only made one partition, and that is
the swap partition.  There are no partitions for the installer to copy the
information to.

Here's the partitioning section from your kickstart file:

clearpart --linux
part swap --size 126

What you need to do is add at least a / partition.  I don't know how much space
you have on the drive, so you'll have to make sure that there's enough room.  It
looks like you are installing a lot of packages, so you'll need quite a bit of
room.  Your partitioning section needs to look something like this:

clearpart --linux
part /  --size 2000 --grow
part swap --size 256

The '--grow' on the / partition means that it will grow to fill the rest of the
unallocated space on the drive.

It's probably a good idea to add a /boot partition too.  You can make it about
30 MB, so the section would look like this:

clearpart --linux
part /  --size 2000 --grow
part swap --size 256
part /boot --size 30


Please reopen this bug if this doesn't solve the problem.

I copied exactly your setups and tt doesn't solve the problem. The 'crash' seems
very similar.

Do you have any free space on the drive?  If so, how much?

Yeah. I have a 20 GB free disk space.

When the installer crashed, can you see any interesting error messages on VC3?

Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.

Sorry. I was unable to connet to your server for a while.

After closer look I spotted that the list of packages I generated from the other 
host hasn't been satisfied bythe installation mount set, so the anaconda crashed
as a result of packages not found.

Should we close it here or report as a "real bug".

I think that the installer should raise a message saying that the package could
not be found and then exit cleanly.

Tried another time and the anaconda crashes even when the package is available
via NFS link. 
For instance it doesn't seem to find: 
libghttp,
openssh,
cpp-2.96.

I've never heard of a problem like this before.  Are you sure that the packages
on the NFS server are not corrupted in some way?

I actually inserted the mkkickstart generated file, i.e. containing the RPMs in
the form of:
...
libghttp-1.0.8-2
openssh-2.5.2p2-5
cpp-2.96-81
...

and then the anaconda cashes. When the 'version part' is removed the
installation gets smoothly.
Should this be reported as a mkkickstart bug?

Yes.  Looks like a mkkickstart file bug.  Changing component.

mkkickstart isn't supported anymore, closing WONTFIX