Bug 1386059 - inst.repo=nfs uses nfsvers=3 in dracut, causes confusion about ports
Summary: inst.repo=nfs uses nfsvers=3 in dracut, causes confusion about ports
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 25
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-18 02:47 UTC by lnie
Modified: 2017-12-12 10:54 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-12-12 10:54:38 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
journal (68.28 KB, text/x-vhdl)
2016-10-18 02:47 UTC, lnie
no flags Details
journal (68.27 KB, text/x-vhdl)
2016-10-18 02:52 UTC, lnie
no flags Details

Description lnie 2016-10-18 02:47:30 UTC
Created attachment 1211587 [details]
journal

Description of problem:

Boot a VM using virt-manager with kernel-path,initrd-path and inst.repo (nfs repo)correctly added,the system ends up with dracut-initqueue timeout.
I saw "mount.nfs: Connection timed out" in journal.To make sure the repo is usable,I have created a VM using .iso installer,and added an inst.repo option with the nfs repo specified,and the installer successfully auto-selects it as the installation source.
FYI:The http repo works well with pxeboot.
Not sure if this is the right place,please feel free to reassign,thanks.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
f25-beta-1.1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 lnie 2016-10-18 02:52:52 UTC
Created attachment 1211590 [details]
journal

Comment 2 Kamil Páral 2016-11-10 09:26:12 UTC
I've performed a pxe installation with inst.repo=nfs: just fine. However, I had the same troubles yesterday, and I figured that anaconda itself probably mounts with nfs4, but dracut (used for pxe+inst.repo) mounts with "nfsvers=3" option. Which requires different ports to be open. When I stopped firewalld, everything started to work properly.

Lili, can you test without a firewall? Also, if you need to debug more, try to mount your nfs repo from a different computer with "-o nfsvers=3" if that works or not (which will tell you whether the problem is on your server or in the installer).

Comment 3 lnie 2016-11-10 09:47:10 UTC
The installation source is fine,as I have used it for other tests,and it works well,and I have tried to mount it before I used it.
I have tried to reproduce this with firewall disabled just now,and turns out the nfs repo works well without firewall:)

Comment 4 Kamil Páral 2016-11-10 10:34:47 UTC
OK, since two of us hit the same issue about the same day, and were similarly confused by it, I'll rephrase this bug:

Anaconda folks, please have a look at why dracut (the anaconda plugin in it, I suppose) forces nfsvers=3, and if the reasons are not needed anymore, consider removing it. Because it's confusing that inst.repo=nfs gets mounted fine in some scenarios (when using directly in anaconda gui, or when stage2 is present), but isn't mounted fine in other scenarios (pxeboot).

Thanks.

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