Bug 612184
| Summary: | Cannot create and run on vmware workstation 7.1.0 build-261024 | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | John Gorman <jgorman> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | ddumas, joshk, jsavanyo, mjamil, mjenner, notting, snagar |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-08-05 19:07:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
John Gorman
2010-07-07 13:55:31 UTC
This sounds like your kickstart file is incorrect. Can you attach it? Hi Bill There is no kickstart file. VMware workstation just asks for the location of the iso on my file system and installs it. Beta 1 works fine with VMware workstation. Beta 2, both the server and the workstation versions are unusable. The console freezes at the end of the boot process and does not give a login prompt or a login screen. This is kind of important because VMware is the easiest way to test a new OS. Plus people will be evaluating this for VMware servers. I have no idea whether this problem shows up on VMware server. I am in programming and I don't have direct access to the VMware server that runs all of our production servers. You can download VMware workstation yourself and try it. I am sure that it is some tiny detail that makes the difference. - john This message:
"You have specified that the group 'X Windows' should
be installed. This group does not exist. Would you
like to continue or abort this installation."
only exists in the package selection code for kickstart:
clumens@exeter:~/src/anaconda$ git checkout rhel6-branch
Switched to branch 'rhel6-branch'
clumens@exeter:~/src/anaconda$ grep -r "You have specified" *
kickstart.py: _("You have specified that the "
kickstart.py: _("You have specified that the "
What kind of installation are you doing? Can you attach /tmp/anaconda.log from when you hit this error to this bug report if at all possible?
This issue has been proposed when we are only considering blocker issues in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. It has been denied for the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. ** If you would still like this issue considered for the current release, ask your support representative to file as a blocker on your behalf. Otherwise ask that it be considered for the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. ** Hi guys, I maintain the Easy Install (Kickstart autogeneration) framework for VMware Workstation. As you may have guessed, yes, there is a Kickstart file involved. The bug was that the "X Windows" comp name disappeared between RHEL6 Beta1 and Beta2 and we released Workstation 7.1.0 only with knowledge of Beta1. The bug has now been fixed and full RHEL6 support will be provided for 7.1.2. At this time I cannot provide an official ETA. Thanks, and please let me know if any other issues of this sort (VMware + Kickstart) are encountered. Great, thanks for the status update. Glad to hear it's been corrected. |