Bug 46910

Summary: kickstart dies with a signal 9
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: SecureONE Network Support <redhat-bugzilla>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 7.0   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Kickstart File none

Description SecureONE Network Support 2001-07-02 04:41:58 UTC 
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Description of problem:
unable to get kickstart to install via HTTP.  Gets past formatting
filesystems and starts to install packages when it receives a signal 9 and
dies gracefully
  sends termination signal to all processes
  disables swap
  unmounting all filesystems
  msg to reboot

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy official RedHat directory to image server
2. make available via http
3. write kickstart file to point to image server
4. create boot disk from office cd
5. create update disk from errata
6. edit boot file on floopy to copy ks section, but put in ks=floppy to
append section
7. boot new machine
8. select my ks section - ksf


Actual Results:  1. sets up ram disks
2. gets netstg1 and 2, hdlist and comps (from http logs)
3. formats filesystems (anaconda msgs and debug screen F5)
4. displays package installation progress screen
dies



Expected Results:  installed Base group


Additional info:

119 packages (all that was in ks.cfg for %packages was @Base)
195 MB

as soon as displayed, got...

install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 9
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
disabling swap...
unmounting filesystems...
/mnt/sysimage/var/spool/squid
/mnt/sysimage/usr/local
/mnt/sysimage/var/www
/mnt/sysimage/home
/mnt/sysimage/boot
/mnt/sysimage/proc
/mnt/sysimage/var
/mnt/sysimage/usr
/mnt/runtime/usr
/proc/bus/usb
/mnt/sysimage
/mnt/runtime
/dev/pts
/proc
you may safely reboot your system
Comment 1 SecureONE Network Support 2001-07-02 04:43:23 UTC 
Created attachment 22407 [details]
Kickstart File
Comment 2 SecureONE Network Support 2001-07-02 04:48:40 UTC 
attached kickstart file is incorrect

correction to %packages
@Base

rest gone (also note space between @ and Base is gone)
Comment 3 SecureONE Network Support 2001-07-02 05:28:04 UTC 
noticed that there was no swap partition set.
this is probably what caused the error
put a swap line into the kickstart file, booted again and now it works properly

silly me