Bug 519477

Summary: Unable to open input kickstart file in Fedora 12 Alpha
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andrew McNabb <amcnabb>
Component: pykickstartAssignee: Chris Lumens <clumens>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Andrew McNabb 2009-08-26 18:43:51 UTC 
I have been using PXE booting to install Fedora for several versions, and there appears to be a regression in Fedora 12 Alpha.  Anaconda is giving the error: "Unable to open input kickstart file".  Here is the "append" line from my pxelinux configuration:

append initrd=f12-x86_64/initrd.img ks=nfs:aml.cs.byu.edu:/admin/install/f12-x86_64.ks ksdevice=BOOTIF

My pxelinux configuration is identical to what worked for Fedora 11 except that I changed "11" to "12" everywhere.  I have triple-checked that the kickstart file exists exactly where it should be (side-by-side with the working f11 kickstart file).  Fedora 12 doesn't use NFSv4, does it?  I ask because NFSv4 clients use different paths than NFSv3 clients.  Other than that, I can't think of any other simple reason that this wouldn't work.  The Fedora 12 configuration is basically identical to the working Fedora 11 configuration.
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-08-26 18:47:09 UTC 
Can you attach screenshots from tty3 and tty4?  Perhaps we're not mounting the NFS source in time or otherwise having errors reading it.
Comment 2 Andrew McNabb 2009-08-26 18:51:28 UTC 
Created attachment 358754 [details]
screenshot of tty3
Comment 3 Andrew McNabb 2009-08-26 18:52:26 UTC 
Created attachment 358755 [details]
screenshot of tty4

I have attached the requested screenshots.  Unfortunately, I don't see anything particularly relevant on tty3 or tty4.
Comment 4 Andrew McNabb 2009-08-26 19:00:18 UTC 
Created attachment 358756 [details]
anaconda.log

I went to tty2 and noticed that the kickstart script has been successfully downloaded to /tmp/ks.cfg.

I'm attaching the anaconda.log.  This log shows that Anaconda was able to read the url from the kickstart file.
Comment 5 Andrew McNabb 2009-08-27 17:52:27 UTC 
Created attachment 358930 [details]
kickstart script

I tried to switch over to HTTP to see whether it's really a problem with NFS.  It turns out that I get the same error with either HTTP or NFS.

I then trimmed out anything from the script that was at all unusual.  We have a package list as a separate file, and I noticed that if I stop including the package file, the error seems to go away.  I'm attaching the kickstart file.  Here's the part that I removed to get rid of the error:

%pre
wget -O /tmp/packages http://aml.cs.byu.edu/install/packages
%end

%packages --ignoremissing
%include /tmp/packages
%end

As I mentioned earlier, I have used the exact same lines (and the same packages file) with Fedora 11, so this seems to be a regression.  I'll attach the packages file in case it is relevant.
Comment 6 Andrew McNabb 2009-08-27 17:53:40 UTC 
Created attachment 358931 [details]
packages file
Comment 7 Chris Lumens 2009-08-27 19:44:42 UTC 
Testing this issue is being blocked by a pykickstart error.  I'll do a rebuild of that package now and then I can test this out tomorrow.  Thanks for the simple, straightforward reproducer.  This should make things a lot easier.
Comment 8 Chris Lumens 2009-09-02 15:42:34 UTC 
Ah, this is caused by raising a different exception than is anticipated.  This will be fixed in the next build of pykickstart (though I may need to make additional changes later in anaconda).  Thanks for the bug report.