Bug 56488

Summary: Installer crashes in kickstart mode during reading packages
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Ray Parish <rparish>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Ray Parish 2001-11-19 21:36:32 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Description of problem:
When using the ks.cfg file listed below. After anaconda detects video, 
monitor and mouse. The installation crashes

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load bootnet.img with my ks.cfg
2.sit back and wait
3.
	

Actual Results:  anaconda crashes and gives me debug output

Expected Results:  Installation

Additional info:

here is my ks.cfg

lang en_US
langsupport en_US
keyboard us
mouse generic3ps/2
timezone --utc America/New_York
rootpw ********
reboot
text
bootloader --location=mbr
install
nfs --server 192.xxx.xxx.xxx --dir /home/install/os/RedHat-7.2
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 27
part swap --size 512
part /  --fstype ext3 --size 512
part /usr  --fstype ext3 --size 1024
part /var  --fstype ext3 --size 512
part /home  --fstype ext3 --size 2048 --grow
network --bootproto dhcp
auth --enableshadow --enablemd5 
firewall --disabled
zerombr yes
skipx

%packages 

# Install the entire @base set, this is the core Linux
# Installation.
@Base
# Packages from the development tree. This is for certain
# Web applications that require libraries and such, also 
# For administration
m4
autoconf
automake
dev86
njamd
bison
byacc
flex
gettext
diffstat
indent
texinfo
make
man-pages
patch
binutils
gcc
cpp
cproto
cdecl
freetype
kernel-headers
krb5-libs
strace
libtool
libtool-libs
db3-utils
db1-devel
tcl
gdbm-devel
netpbm
libpng
libtiff
libjpeg
libungif
libmng
ncompress
expect
tk
python
python-xmlrpc
rpm-python
libxml
gcc-c++
libstdc++-devel
glibc-devel
expat
openssl
openssl-devel
gd

# Perl/Some Libs
perl
perl-DBI
perl-File-MMagic
perl-NKF
perl-SGMLSpm

#utilities - From the @Utilities package, and some misc.
iproute
bc
rmt
dump
lsof
screen
stat
dos2unix
zip
ftp
wget
nscd
whois
bind-utils
iptables
iputils
portmap
pidentd
xinetd
nfs-utils
telnet
telnet-server
traceroute
up2date
rhn_register
ucd-snmp
ucd-snmp-utils
ntp

# Misc Internet Stuff
pine
urlview
lynx
pspell
aspell
vim-enhanced
tamago
emacs
emacs-nox
ncftp

# Shells
tcsh
openssh
openssh-server
openssh-clients
openssh-askpass

# Security
pam_krb5
krbafs
nss_ldap
tcp_wrappers
XFree86
XFree86-Mono
XFree86-devel
XFree86-doc
XFree86-libs

%post

/sbin/chkconfig	anacron 	off
/sbin/chkconfig	gpm		off	  
/sbin/chkconfig	atd		off
/sbin/chkconfig apmd		off
/sbin/chkconfig netfs		off
/sbin/chkconfig	nfslock		off
/sbin/chkconfig	portmap		off
/sbin/chkconfig	kudzu		off

# Suck down the installer
cd /root
/usr/bin/ncftpget ftp://192.xxx.xxx.xxx/pub/installer.tar.gz

# Suck down the temporary rc file
/usr/bin/ncftpget ftp://192.xxx.xxx.xxx/pub/rc.installer

# Copy RC file into place
mv -f rc.installer /etc/rc.d/rc
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc

# Untar the installation package
tar -xzvf installer.tar.gz
chmod 755 -R installer
rm -f installer.tar.gz

# Replace the inittab file
/usr/bin/ncftpget ftp://192.xxx.xxx.xxx/pub/inittab.installer
cp -f inittab.installer /etc/inittab
chmod 755 /etc/inittab

Comment 1 Ray Parish 2001-11-19 21:38:13 UTC
Created attachment 37963 [details]
Here is the Anaconda Dump

Comment 2 Ray Parish 2001-11-19 22:10:26 UTC
You can close this bug. urlview is no longer a valid package.
Sorry.