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Bug 1145454 - KickstartError: /usr/sbin/authconfig is missing. Cannot setup authentication.
Summary: KickstartError: /usr/sbin/authconfig is missing. Cannot setup authentication.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
URL:
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:a23fdf4740c719c18150fc3bdae...
Depends On: 1147687
Blocks: RHEL7CCC
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-09-23 06:30 UTC by Petr Spacek
Modified: 2014-10-10 16:42 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-10-02 19:05:35 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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File: anaconda-tb (530.97 KB, text/plain)
2014-09-23 06:31 UTC, Petr Spacek 		no flags Details
File: anaconda.log (5.81 KB, text/plain)
2014-09-23 06:31 UTC, Petr Spacek 		no flags Details
File: environ (393 bytes, text/plain)
2014-09-23 06:31 UTC, Petr Spacek 		no flags Details
File: lsblk_output (1.83 KB, text/plain)
2014-09-23 06:31 UTC, Petr Spacek 		no flags Details
File: nmcli_dev_list (1.28 KB, text/plain)
2014-09-23 06:31 UTC, Petr Spacek 		no flags Details
File: os_info (508 bytes, text/plain)
2014-09-23 06:31 UTC, Petr Spacek 		no flags Details
File: program.log (32.09 KB, text/plain)
2014-09-23 06:31 UTC, Petr Spacek 		no flags Details
File: storage.log (116.66 KB, text/plain)
2014-09-23 06:31 UTC, Petr Spacek 		no flags Details
File: syslog (72.17 KB, text/plain)
2014-09-23 06:31 UTC, Petr Spacek 		no flags Details
File: ifcfg.log (2.51 KB, text/plain)
2014-09-23 06:31 UTC, Petr Spacek 		no flags Details
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Description Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:30:54 UTC 
Description of problem:
I'm using kickstart from RHEL 7.0 to install trully minimal VM. Anaconda dies because authconfig is missing in that VM but it worked before.

I would somehow expect that authconfig is skipped if it is not present instead of crashing the installation.

Version-Release number of selected component:
anaconda-19.31.91-1

The following was filed automatically by anaconda:
anaconda 19.31.91-1 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/kickstart.py", line 248, in execute
    raise KickstartError(msg)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/install.py", line 78, in doConfiguration
    ksdata.authconfig.execute(storage, ksdata, instClass)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 764, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line 211, in run
    threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs)
KickstartError: /usr/sbin/authconfig is missing. Cannot setup authentication.

Additional info:
cmdline:        /usr/bin/python  /sbin/anaconda
cmdline_file:   inst.sshd dhcpclass=ipa-lab-vms ks=http://gordo.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/RHEL-7-nightly-x86_64-minimal-brq
executable:     /sbin/anaconda
hashmarkername: anaconda
kernel:         3.10.0-160.el7.x86_64
product:        Red Hat Enterprise Linux
release:        Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode release 7.0 (Maipo)
release_type:   pre-release
type:           anaconda
version:        7.0
Comment 1 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:31:03 UTC 
Created attachment 940259 [details]
File: anaconda-tb
Comment 2 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:31:05 UTC 
Created attachment 940260 [details]
File: anaconda.log
Comment 3 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:31:07 UTC 
Created attachment 940261 [details]
File: environ
Comment 5 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:31:13 UTC 
Created attachment 940263 [details]
File: lsblk_output
Comment 6 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:31:15 UTC 
Created attachment 940264 [details]
File: nmcli_dev_list
Comment 7 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:31:17 UTC 
Created attachment 940265 [details]
File: os_info
Comment 8 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:31:21 UTC 
Created attachment 940266 [details]
File: program.log
Comment 9 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:31:26 UTC 
Created attachment 940267 [details]
File: storage.log
Comment 10 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:31:29 UTC 
Created attachment 940268 [details]
File: syslog
Comment 11 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:31:32 UTC 
Created attachment 940269 [details]
File: ifcfg.log
Comment 13 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:34:25 UTC 
Package section from the kickstart is:

%packages --nobase --ignoremissing
rhn-setup

@core
yum-utils
sudo
audit
openssh-server
openssh-clients
iptables
mc
vim-enhanced
acpid
# These are needed for NFS home dirs
nfs-utils
portreserve
autofs
# Needed in %post
wget
# Remove unnecessary desktop crap
-alsa-lib
-cairo
-fedora-release-notes
-gtk2
-ghostscript
-ghostscript-fonts
-redhat-lsb
-qt3
# Guest agent reports VM's IP address to RHEV-M
rhevm-guest-agent-common

# Remove some proprietary crap
-aic94xx-firmware
-atmel-firmware
-b43-openfwwf
-bfa-firmware
-ipw2100-firmware
-ipw2200-firmware
-ivtv-firmware
-iwl100-firmware
-iwl1000-firmware
-iwl3945-firmware
-iwl4965-firmware
-iwl5000-firmware
-iwl5150-firmware
-iwl6000-firmware
-iwl6000g2a-firmware
-iwl6050-firmware
-kernel-firmware
-libertas-usb8388-firmware
-ql2100-firmware
-ql2200-firmware
-ql23xx-firmware
-ql2400-firmware
-ql2500-firmware
-rt61pci-firmware
-rt73usb-firmware
-xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware
-zd1211-firmware
# Try to prevent disk trashing
-prelink
-postfix

%end
Comment 14 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 06:38:09 UTC 
Please note that RHEL version in bug decsription is incorrect. I'm testing nightly compose RHEL-7.1-20140918.n.0.
Comment 16 Chris Lumens 2014-09-23 13:54:38 UTC 
You asked for authconfig in your kickstart file.  This is consistent with other kickstart behavior - if you ask for partitioning we can't do, anaconda fails.  We can maybe clean up the traceback so it looks more like an error, but it needs to stay an error.  What if you are relying on the authentication setup to be just so for post-install?  That could be a nasty surprise.
Comment 17 Petr Spacek 2014-09-23 14:51:31 UTC 
Ah, okay. I was confused by fact that it worked in the past.

To be sure: It is supposed to work if I omit "auth  --useshadow  --enablemd5" line from kickstart, right?
Comment 21 Chris Lumens 2014-09-30 17:14:11 UTC 
> Ah, okay. I was confused by fact that it worked in the past.
> 
> To be sure: It is supposed to work if I omit "auth  --useshadow 
> --enablemd5" line from kickstart, right?

If you leave out any authconfig line, anaconda will not attempt to call authconfig and therefore it should work, yep.
Comment 22 David Cantrell 2014-10-02 19:05:35 UTC 
Closing per comments #16 and #21.
Comment 23 Nish Aravamudan 2014-10-10 16:42:21 UTC 
Can I ask one question here: Isn't this a regression? Did `auth --useshadow --enablemd5` do something in RH7.0? We use this in our Cobbler-based kickstarts and it "works" fine in RH7.0, but fails in 7.1. I thought the kickstart syntax would be stable w/in a release. Where is it documented that `auth --useshadow --enablemd5` isn't supported on RH7.1?
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