Bug 1103151

Created attachment 900771 [details]
Screenshot of the KS error.

Created attachment 900772 [details]
production.log trace with debug on.

This is fixed in upstream since 0.0.18

Verified: FailedQA
Failed QA with foreman-installer-staypuft-0.0.18-1.el6ost.noarch

Was able to start a deployment using the default 'http://' RHEL repo path.

The deployment got stuck on 15% deploying the controller.
The message on the console is:
Could not find kernel image: boot/RedHat-<release>-<arch>-vmlinuz

Verified: FailedQA
Failed QA with foreman-installer-staypuft-0.0.20-1.el6ost.noarch

Was able to start a deployment using the default 'http://' RHEL repo path.

The deployment got stuck on 15% deploying the controller.
The message on the console is:
Could not find kernel image: boot/RedHat-<release>-<arch>-vmlinuz

Did you rerun the installer? How did you set the 'http://' value?

I ran the staypuft-installer.
'http://' is the default value.
After re-producing this bug, I configured another RHEL repo path and everything worked.

So we see the following code added to /usr/share/foreman-installer/hooks/lib/subscription_seeder.rb:

  def repo_path_invalid?
    URI.parse(@repo_path)
    return false
  rescue URI::InvalidURIError => e
    @logger.debug "User tried to use invalid repo path: #{e.message}"
    return true
  end

And the following message is added to the log (/var/log/foreman-installer/foreman-installer.log):
[DEBUG 2014-06-20 16:37:04 main] User tried to use invalid repo path: bad URI(absolute but no path): http://

However, this isn't enough. The deployment should be prevented from starting - it will fail anyway.

Thanks.

I've extracted repo path to separate menu. User can still skip that but there's warning and explanation. User input is validated in case he does not skip it. They can then skip subscription manager configuration. As we discussed yesterday on IRC, I'd recommend opening a new RFE for adding validation to staypuft webui that wouldn't allow running deployment if repo path is not set (or valid or reachable?). But I think this bug can be considered as fixed. The patch is in staypuft-installer 0.0.24 hence I'm moving to POST.

*** Bug 1113111 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I'm not clear that this is a dupe, the behaviour introduced here is that I now *must* enter a URL, which is what I was complaining about in Bug # 1113111 because it's unclear to me what that URL is meant to be.

The text needs to be more explanatory and / or provide a sensible default.

sorry, didn't mean to clean needinfo.

Can you look with the new rhel-osp-installer in this build?  we do allow you to skip setting it and I think we have more of an explanation there.  If you think we need more, please reopen.

Verified:rhel-osp-installer-0.0.25-5.el6ost.noarch

During the execution of rhel-osp-installer you're prompted to configure the installation media and you're warned woth the following message:

"Now you should configure installation media which will be used for provisioning.
Note that if you don't configure it properly, host provisioning won't work until you configure installation media manually."


Note: You're able to complete the installation with the default RHEL repo path (http://).

The field verification during employment will be verified as part of this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112866

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2014-1003.html