Bug 642629

Summary:	re-provisioning from rhel6 to rhel5 stops on incorrectly parsed ks parameter
Product:	Red Hat Satellite 5	Reporter:	Jiri Kastner <jkastner>
Component:	Provisioning	Assignee:	Partha Aji <paji>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Jiri Kastner <jkastner>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	540	CC:	atodorov, cperry, gkhachik, mzazrivec, psklenar
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	spacewalk-koan-0.2.7-3	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2010-10-28 14:50:07 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	642623
Bug Blocks:	487678

Description Jiri Kastner 2010-10-13 13:09:39 UTC

Description of problem:
when i'm trying to re-provision rhel6 virtual guests (or real machine) to rhel5, 
after restart kickstarting stops on kickstart wrong url.
kernel passes to anaconda only half (+-) of whole url.

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


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. prepare satellite to be able kickstart rhel6 and rhel5
2. register rhel6 machine (real, virtual)
3. re-provision it to rhel5
4. check state of kickstarting
  
Actual results:
anaconda asking for correct kickstart url. displayed is only half of correct url.

Expected results:
anaconda ks paramater parsed correctly

Additional info:

Comment 1 Petr Sklenar 2010-10-14 07:52:14 UTC

I looks like hostname and path is shorten, and then kickstart is not downloaded.

Comment 5 Clifford Perry 2010-10-14 12:52:08 UTC

grub.conf looks fine. 

The screen shots/data provided indicate that *something* is cutting off the hostname/url removing 'edhat.com'. 

It seems more like an anaconda issue, but would like it investigated some more. 

Cliff

Comment 6 Milan Zázrivec 2010-10-14 15:11:18 UTC

The kernel command line as shown in comment #4 is longer than what
we can digest in RHEL-5 (255 char limit). Matter of fact, if you'd
be reprovisioning RHEL-5 to RHEL-5, you'd get a message from
koan telling:
...
Kernel options are too long, 255 chars exceeded.
...

Since you're doing RHEL-6 -> RHEL-5, the thing passes (I'm guessing
that we don't have this limitation in RHEL-6).

The only solution for this I can think of is to hack koan (or spacewalk-koan
perhaps) to not to include all the cmdline options from default kernel
when creating the record for the re-provisioning (so that our
options can actually fit into the cmdline length limit).

Comment 8 Clifford Perry 2010-10-14 18:53:03 UTC

*** Bug 640668 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16 Clifford Perry 2010-10-28 14:45:08 UTC

The 5.4.0 RHN Satellite and RHN Proxy release has occurred. This issue has been resolved with this release. 


RHEA-2010:0801 - RHN Satellite Server 5.4.0 Upgrade
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10332

RHEA-2010:0803 - RHN Tools enhancement update
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10333

RHEA-2010:0802 - RHN Proxy Server 5.4.0 bug fix update
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10334

RHEA-2010:0800 - RHN Satellite Server 5.4.0
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10335

Docs are available:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/index.html 

Regards,
Clifford