Bug 519056

Description of problem:
While attempting to kickstart a RHEL4 box to RHEL5 through a Satellite Proxy (not sure if Proxy is important), my first kickstart failed and then when I attempted to reschedule the kickstart, another failure occurred.  Although I'm not sure why the first kickstart failed, I know that all of the follow-up attempts to reschedule the kickstart failed with:

<--- cut from stdout of rhn_check -vvv on the client --->
- reading URL: http://rlx-2-04.rhndev.redhat.com/cobbler/images/ks-rhel-i386-server-5-u3/vmlinuz
- ['/sbin/grubby', '--add-kernel', '/boot/vmlinuz', '--initrd', '/boot/initrd.img', '--args', '"ksdevice=link lang= console=ttyS0,38400n8 text ks=http://rlx-2-04.rhndev.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rlx-0-04.rhndev.redhat.com_RegisteredThroughProxy:1 kssendmac acpi=noirq "', '--copy-default', '--lilo', '--make-default', '--title=kick1251151203']
- applying lilo changes
- ['/sbin/lilo']
Quoted string is too long near line 15 in file /etc/lilo.conf
command failed (1)
D: Sending back response (1, 'Kickstart failed. Koan error.', {'koan': 'command failed (1)'})
D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',)
D: local action status:  (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update (or package list recently updated)', {})


Notice the error "Quoted string is too long near line 15 in file /etc/lilo.conf".  Below is /etc/lilo.conf after 4 rescheduled kickstart attempts.  Notice how the append line grows longer with each attempted kickstart.


prompt
timeout=20
default=kick1251151203
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
serial=0
linear

image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=kick1251151203
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/myvg/rootvol
        append="acpi=noirq console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8 ksdevice=link lang= console=ttyS0,38400n8 text ks=http://rlx-2-04.rhndev.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rlx-0-04.rhndev.redhat.com_RegisteredThroughProxy:1 kssendmac acpi=noirq  lang= console=ttyS0,38400n8 text ks=http://rlx-2-04.rhndev.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rlx-0-04.rhndev.redhat.com_RegisteredThroughProxy:1 kssendmac acpi=noirq  lang= console=ttyS0,38400n8 text ks=http://rlx-2-04.rhndev.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rlx-0-04.rhndev.redhat.com_RegisteredThroughProxy:1 kssendmac acpi=noirq  lang= console=ttyS0,38400n8 text ks=http://sun-x4200-01.rhts.bos.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rlx-0-04.rhndev.redhat.com_RegisteredThroughProxy:1 kssendmac acpi=noirq "
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=kick1251150923
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/myvg/rootvol
        append="acpi=noirq console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8 ksdevice=link lang= console=ttyS0,38400n8 text ks=http://rlx-2-04.rhndev.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rlx-0-04.rhndev.redhat.com_RegisteredThroughProxy:1 kssendmac acpi=noirq  lang= console=ttyS0,38400n8 text ks=http://rlx-2-04.rhndev.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rlx-0-04.rhndev.redhat.com_RegisteredThroughProxy:1 kssendmac acpi=noirq  lang= console=ttyS0,38400n8 text ks=http://sun-x4200-01.rhts.bos.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rlx-0-04.rhndev.redhat.com_RegisteredThroughProxy:1 kssendmac acpi=noirq "
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=kick1251148998
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/myvg/rootvol
        append="acpi=noirq console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8 ksdevice=link lang= console=ttyS0,38400n8 text ks=http://rlx-2-04.rhndev.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rlx-0-04.rhndev.redhat.com_RegisteredThroughProxy:1 kssendmac acpi=noirq  lang= console=ttyS0,38400n8 text ks=http://sun-x4200-01.rhts.bos.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rlx-0-04.rhndev.redhat.com_RegisteredThroughProxy:1 kssendmac acpi=noirq "
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=kick1251147763
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/myvg/rootvol
        append="acpi=noirq console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8 ksdevice=link lang= console=ttyS0,38400n8 text ks=http://sun-x4200-01.rhts.bos.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rlx-0-04.rhndev.redhat.com_RegisteredThroughProxy:1 kssendmac acpi=noirq "
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.EL
        label=linux
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-78.EL.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/myvg/rootvol
        append="acpi=noirq console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8"


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
staged (Satellite-5.3.0-RHEL5-re20090724.0) with updates from Aug 20, 2009

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. register a RHEL 4 client to satellite (not sure if registering through a proxy is important for the recreate)
2. create a kickstart profile for RHEL 5
3. schedule the kickstart (and do something - not sure what - to cause the kick start to fail).  Then do it again causing it to fail.  The purpose is to cause repeated kickstart entries in /etc/lilo.conf
4. eventually on the second or third failure the reason should be because line 15 of /etc/lilo.conf (the append line) is too long.
  
Actual results:
Quoted string is too long near line 15 in file /etc/lilo.conf
command failed (1)
D: Sending back response (1, 'Kickstart failed. Koan error.', {'koan': 'command failed (1)'})

Expected results:
The append entries in /etc/lilo.conf should not grow as kickstarts are added.

Additional info: