Bug 1201201 - Installer hangs at "Performing post installation tasks"
Summary: Installer hangs at "Performing post installation tasks"
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1204242
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 22
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-12 10:08 UTC by colin
Modified: 2015-04-29 17:35 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-04-29 17:35:59 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
/var/log/anaconda.log (35.88 KB, text/plain)
2015-03-13 23:09 UTC, colin
no flags Details
/var/log/program.log (45.12 KB, text/plain)
2015-03-13 23:10 UTC, colin
no flags Details
/var/log/storage.log (158.45 KB, text/plain)
2015-03-13 23:11 UTC, colin
no flags Details
Screengrab1 vm124 Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-22_Beta.iso (648.40 KB, image/png)
2015-04-27 18:05 UTC, colin
no flags Details
Screengrab2 vm124 Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-22_Beta.iso (687.23 KB, image/png)
2015-04-27 18:11 UTC, colin
no flags Details
ScreengrabA vm121 Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-22_Beta.iso RC3 (232.74 KB, image/png)
2015-04-27 18:45 UTC, colin
no flags Details
ScreengrabB vm121 Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-22_Beta.iso RC3 (257.37 KB, image/png)
2015-04-27 18:52 UTC, colin
no flags Details

Description colin 2015-03-12 10:08:22 UTC
Description of problem:
Installer stuck forever at "Performing post installation tasks"

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


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
cannot continue install.

Expected results:
install should complete

Additional info:

Installation was tested in a KVM VM and observed via spice remoteviewer.

I have seen the request for more information for RHBZ #1146015
 but am unable to switch to another console (or ssh) so cannot see howto view log files or run 'ps -ef'

Comment 1 colin 2015-03-12 10:46:29 UTC
So I re-did the F22 Alpha install.

This time I did a completely bare install, with no extra packages selected.
The only non-default option was to (again) create a user 'admin'

As before I was monitoring progress in my VM manager ( in this case ProxmoxVE )
and could see that the installer was not 'frozen' like last time but still using CPU and Harddrive IO.

The whole install took 21 minutes. !!!! :-(

I would estimate that at least 15 minutes of that was the installer 'waiting' at the final screen.

Comment 2 Chris Murphy 2015-03-13 18:57:45 UTC
Please separately attach logs from /tmp (or /var/log/anaconda): program.log, anaconda.log, storage.log.

Comment 3 colin 2015-03-13 23:09:45 UTC
Created attachment 1001535 [details]
/var/log/anaconda.log

Comment 4 colin 2015-03-13 23:10:45 UTC
Created attachment 1001536 [details]
/var/log/program.log

Comment 5 colin 2015-03-13 23:11:46 UTC
Created attachment 1001537 [details]
/var/log/storage.log

Comment 6 David Shea 2015-04-15 14:25:03 UTC
Can you please attach the other log files from /tmp? Does this problem still occur with F22 Beta?

Comment 7 colin 2015-04-27 14:56:15 UTC
Sorry the requested files are no longer available, also I seemed to recall looking in /tmp as requested at the time and not seeing the log files although that would have been after a few reboots, so maybe they were purged already.

- Hence why I uploaded the logs from /var/log/ as requested.

However I did do another fresh install from the newer image:

Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-22_Beta_TC8.iso and all went smoothly.

:-)

So feel free to ignore this BZ.

Thanks.
Colin

Comment 8 David Shea 2015-04-27 15:03:31 UTC
Glad to hear

Comment 9 colin 2015-04-27 18:00:18 UTC
So I was prematurely optimistic in stating that my last install was fine and thus the problem was gone.

The installer 'hang' that I originally reported does in fact still exist.

I have investigated further and can now describe the circumstances in which the installer _does_ and _does_not_ eventually complete.

I performed all of the tests for this BZ thread on the same ProxmoxVE host as previously and have grabbed screen shots for illustration.

I was successful in a completely fresh install of  

Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-22_Beta.iso which is todays current RC3

For clarity of comparison - I will upload screen grabs of this successful install to this comment, and then continue with the problematic case in a subsequent comment.

Comment 10 colin 2015-04-27 18:05:50 UTC
Created attachment 1019400 [details]
Screengrab1 vm124 Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-22_Beta.iso

You can see from the CPU Usage graph that the installation takes about 21 minutes.

Comment 11 colin 2015-04-27 18:11:11 UTC
Created attachment 1019401 [details]
Screengrab2 vm124 Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-22_Beta.iso

Unfortunately the resource usage graphs do not all fit on the screen together.

You can see from the bottom graph the disk IO which is completed around 18:23.

F22 install screen shows install completed and button on bottom right changed to 'Reboot'.

:-)

Comment 12 colin 2015-04-27 18:26:57 UTC
Having gone through this process at least seven times now for various versions of F22Server

Alpha TC8 and Beta TC2 TC3 TC8 and RC3 

DVD and netinstall 

I note a couple of things that are NOT helpful

1) In the screengrabs above of the Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-22_Beta.iso install completeting - the screen still shows :
'User Creation'
'Administrator admin will be created'

Clearly this gives the wrong impression that the requested new user _has_not _been_created_yet_ .

This erronoeus 'information' was a contributor to me not wanting to just reboot a 'hung' install to see what state it was in, since it _falsely__ claims to not have finished doing its installation procedures.

2) I had no way of knowing the IP address of the installation - so could not even attempt to ssh in to it.

3) There is no differentiation detailing what image you are installing.
Only the text 'FEDORA 22_BETA INSTALLATION' which is not helpful when you have been installing multiple versions e.g. Server and DVD and netinstall.


comment from thread starting post still applies

> I have seen the request for more information for RHBZ #1146015
> but am unable to switch to another console (or ssh) so cannot see howto view >log files or run 'ps -ef' 

@David in comment 6
> Can you please attach the other log files from /tmp? Does this problem still > occur with F22 Beta?

The authenticity of host '192.168.11.133 (192.168.11.133)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is 88:36:f2:c1:f6:6a:3c:b9:59:0f:76:7e:9d:d4:36:74.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.11.133' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
root.11.133's password: 
Last login: Mon Apr 27 18:32:30 2015
[root@localhost ~]# cd /tmp/
[root@localhost tmp]# ls -alrt
total 4
drwxrwxrwt.  7 root root  140 Apr 27 18:52 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 17 root root 4096 Apr 27  2015 ..
drwxrwxrwt.  2 root root   40 Apr 27  2015 .X11-unix
drwxrwxrwt.  2 root root   40 Apr 27  2015 .XIM-unix
drwxrwxrwt.  2 root root   40 Apr 27  2015 .font-unix
drwxrwxrwt.  2 root root   40 Apr 27  2015 .Test-unix
drwxrwxrwt.  2 root root   40 Apr 27  2015 .ICE-unix
[root@localhost tmp]# 
[root@localhost tmp]# ls -alrt /var/log/anaconda/
total 1200
-rw-------.  1 root root  20895 Apr 27 18:22 anaconda.log
-rw-------.  1 root root  72727 Apr 27 18:22 syslog
-rw-------.  1 root root  17081 Apr 27 18:22 X.log
-rw-------.  1 root root  29639 Apr 27 18:22 program.log
-rw-------.  1 root root   2193 Apr 27 18:22 packaging.log
-rw-------.  1 root root  84132 Apr 27 18:22 storage.log
-rw-------.  1 root root   6198 Apr 27 18:22 ifcfg.log
-rw-------.  1 root root  10637 Apr 27 18:22 dnf.log
-rw-------.  1 root root  44401 Apr 27 18:22 dnf.rpm.log
-rw-------.  1 root root      0 Apr 27 18:22 ks-script-ZiVZMq.log
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   4096 Apr 27 18:22 .
-rw-------.  1 root root 909537 Apr 27 18:22 journal.log
drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root   4096 Apr 27 18:42 ..
[root@localhost tmp]# 

I can post these if requested.

Comment 13 colin 2015-04-27 18:37:45 UTC
And so to an install that did not complete.

This 'hung' and failed to complete just as reported in comment 1

Currently latest build publicly available on:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/

which is 22_Beta_RC3/Server from:

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/22_Beta_RC3/Server/x86_64/iso/

Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-22_Beta.iso 

I saved some screen grabs and will upload now.

Comment 14 colin 2015-04-27 18:45:27 UTC
Created attachment 1019410 [details]
ScreengrabA vm121 Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-22_Beta.iso RC3

Again all 4 of the resource usage graphs do not fit on screen together.
this first screengrab shows the CPU usage
ih high from 16:06 to 16:48

I also was running an htop on the Proxmox host so could could watch the host CPU usage in realtime.

Comment 15 colin 2015-04-27 18:52:15 UTC
Created attachment 1019411 [details]
ScreengrabB vm121 Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-22_Beta.iso RC3



screengrab scrolled down shows the Disk IO usage

you can see the diskIO from 16:16 is minimal whilst I click through the setup options

Then peaks as packages are installed at 16:31

Then tails off by 16:47

Unlike in the case of the Server DVD above - the installation never actually completes.

Comment 16 David Shea 2015-04-29 17:35:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1204242 ***


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