Bug 499425

Summary: With "noprobe" kernel cmdline option, then isn't possible AskMethod NFS installation.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Frantisek Hanzlik <franta>
Component: anacondaAssignee: David Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 11CC: rmaximo, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Frantisek Hanzlik 2009-05-06 16:01:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
I'm just trying install F11 Rawhide (from 5-May-09) on FSC Amilo NTB, AskMethod type with distro on NFS server. Because some HW problem, I must boot with "noprobe" kernel option, otherwise I stay on black screen in phase of initializing HW. OK, when specifying "noprobe", I can select net driver, NetworkManager initialize eth0 over DHCP and I enter NFS server name and Fedora directory.
But then anaconda state: "Error. That directory could not be mounted from the server".
Problem live probably in usage "noprobe" commandline parameter - when I try installation on other PC without HW problems, then without "noprobe" NFS directory mounts fine and installer start OK; with "noprobe" process ends badly as with FSC NTB.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I test it with 1-May-09 release (anaconda-11.5.0.4*-1.fc11.i586.rpm) and 5-May-09 release (anaconda-11.5.0.49-1.fc11.i586.rpm), I suppose that same anaconda versions are on appropriate "boot.iso" images.

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot from rawhide "boot.iso" CD and specify "askmethod noprobe" params
2. select network driver and IPv4 configuration
3. enter NFS server name/IP and Fedora distro directory
  
Actual results:
- NFS directory could not be mounted
And when going back for new NFS server/Fedora directory setting, Fedora directory value contain "/images/install.img" in addition to previously entered value. Maybe cosmetic only thing.

Expected results:
installation should be continued from loopback mounted ./images/install.img

Little OT, rather TODO: it would be fine if anaconda could run in case Askmethod -> Hard drive from distro in normal directory tree, not only expecting ISO images on that hard drive. Imagine eg. customized distro on
USB stick or USB/firewire disk, etc.

Additional info:
Fedora Rawhide i386. NFS server is running Fedora 10 w up-to-date updates.
Attachment - gzipped tar traffic captured by Wireshark on NFS server in both cases, with and without "noprobe" param, as libpcap and ascii packet-on-oneline.

/var/log/messages on NFS server contain:
- in case with "noprobe":
May  6 14:20:50 franta mountd[16721]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.144:810 for /mnt/ARCHIV/dist/RH/f11/i386/os/images (/mnt/ARCHIV)
May  6 14:20:50 franta mountd[16721]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.144:711 for /mnt/ARCHIV/dist/RH/f11/i386/os/images (/mnt/ARCHIV)

- in case without "noprobe" is one line moreover:
May  6 14:16:55 franta mountd[16721]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.144:711 for /mnt/ARCHIV/dist/RH/f11/i386/os/images (/mnt/ARCHIV)
May  6 14:16:55 franta mountd[16721]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.144:1018 for /mnt/ARCHIV/dist/RH/f11/i386/os/RHupdates (/mnt/ARCHIV)
May  6 14:16:55 franta mountd[16721]: can't stat exported dir /mnt/ARCHIV/dist/RH/f11/i386/os/RHupdates: No such file or directory
Comment 1 Frantisek Hanzlik 2009-05-06 16:10:15 UTC 
Created attachment 342683 [details]
6 files (three pcap/ascii pairs) as gzipped tar

amilo-with_noprobe.lst  - FSC notebook ascii one line per packet
amilo-with_noprobe.pcap - dtto as tcpdump libpcpap

janusa-with_noprobe.lst  - PC "janusa", ascii one line per packet
janusa-with_noprobe.pcap - dtto as tcpdump libpcpap

janusa-without_noprobe.lst  - PC "janusa", ascii one line per packet
janusa-without_noprobe.pcap - dtto as tcpdump libpcpap
Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 15:15:51 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 3 David Cantrell 2009-07-27 21:31:47 UTC 
Can you boot the installer and pass loglevel=debug and then when you get the error about mounting the NFS directory, switch over to tty3 and copy what it says and paste it here.
Comment 4 David Cantrell 2009-10-02 01:03:17 UTC 
Have not received any information back from NEEDINFO, closing.  If you can confirm this problem is still happening on rawhide, reopen the bug and post current debugging information.