Bug 433290
| Summary: | IPv6 only installation problem in anaconda | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | A.J. Werkman <aj.werkman> | ||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | David Cantrell <dcantrell> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | cra, jonstanley, mark | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-04-21 20:23:48 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 195271, 235706 | ||||||||
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Description
A.J. Werkman
2008-02-18 13:39:07 UTC
Created attachment 295166 [details]
Screen after installation use IPv6 only addressing scheme
(In reply to comment #0) This problem is still present in FC9Beta. > > Additional info: > If I do a network installation intending to use a http installation I deselect > IPv4 and select IPv6 manual configuration. I use the addressing scheme: > Address: 2001:838:3ab:1::22/64 > Default gw: 2001:838:3ab:1::1 > DNS: 2001:838:3ab:1::1 > > The installation process stops with a: loader received SIGSEGV. > > Apparently the IPv6 addressing scheme is badly addled by anaconda. I noticed that Bugzilla Bug 230949: Manual IPv6 configuration for network install is broken at the end off the discussion addresses the same issue. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230949 *** There are two different issues here: the failure of the network install (same as in Bug 230949), and the network misconfiguration after a successful install, which is a different issue. I recall seeing config problems like this with a v6-only system in F7-test1 (which I forgot to report). Please reopen. This is fixed in rawhide. Created attachment 303131 [details]
Screenview from IPv6/IPv4 manual installation
This screen does not make it possible to enter both IPv4 and IPv6 default
gateways and DNS server addresses. Neither is it obvious if you should fill in
IPv4 or IPv6 adressing schemes.
I tested this in rawhide anaconda version 11.4.0.74 dated 2008-04-20. I have verified, that in a mixed IPv4 and IPv6 installation, using IPv4 DHCP and IPv6 automatic neighbour discovery, the correct network settings are taken to the settings in /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth<?> files. But as soon as I start to use fixed IPv6 addressing scheme in the installation, although in most of the scenarios anaconda SIGFAULTS (but this is Bug 230949 I believe), I noticed I can not give anaconda the proper IPv6 default gateway and nameserver, as I have described in Comment #7. This makes it impossible for anaconda to configure the above mentioned files properly. So I don't think this bug is solved completely and should be reopend. The bug you are encountering, as posted in your screenshot in comment #7, is bug 230949. There are several issues related to the IPv6 configuration issues in anaconda. Unfortunately, I won't be able to address all of them in F-9 because it's far to late to make user interface changes. What I can do, is make what we have now work as best as possible and then fix things up in F-10. In this bug, what was originally reported is the output to the /etc/sysconfig files was incorrect if you were doing IPv6-only networking. I verified this and was able to see that, yes, anaconda was not writing the /etc/sysconfig files correctly when doing IPv6-only. The values for those files are set during the network postinstall configuration screen, which is after the screen shot you have posted. During a graphical installer or text install, you will be asked later during installation what you want your network configuration settings to be. This is done because some people may want different settings on the final system than what they used for installation. On that screen, if you edit an individual interface and turn off IPv4 and switch IPv6 to manual and give it an address an prefix, the values written to /etc/sysconfig will be correct for the static IPv6 address. Also, the gateway field on the main screen will accept an IPv6 address (even though it's not obvious). If you give it an IPv6 address, it will write that to /etc/sysconfig/network as IPV6_DEFAULTGW rather than GATEWAY. So, based on the opening comments on this bug, the problem is solved. Unfortunately, bug 230949 (which I'm working on today) prevents you from doing an IPv6-only installation from the very beginning. But, if you do an install using any other method or IPv4 networking, once you get to the network postinstall configuration screen, you can change things to IPv6 and have correct values written to /etc/sysconfig. What I cannot do now is add another field to prompt for a separate IPv6 gateway. I will be doing that once F-9 goes out. It's too late to add user interface elements or string changes. I am working on 230949, but this bug is done based on the original comment. The fix for this bug will appear in anaconda-11.4.0.75-1. |