This bug is about NetworkManager and Anaconda. Anaconda has boot option: method=http://x.x.x.x/composes/some_rhel6/compose/Workstation/x86_64/os Anacoda logs has next entry: 1:45:54,391 WARNING NetworkManager: ifcfg-rh: warning: invalid GATEWAY_PING_TIMEOUT time '60' Above message is very confusing. GATEWAY_PING_TIMEOUT variable should have correct value. There is more information above message at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979163#c30 RHEL6.9 compose from 20170316. How reproducible: always.
Created attachment 1263680 [details] /tmp/syslog Search for GATEWAY_PING_TIMEOUT
Created attachment 1263681 [details] /tmp/ifcfg.log "grep" for GATEWAY_PING_TIMEOUT
btw, bug 1128581 [1] changed the timeout to 600 seconds, on RHEL7. [1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=e86f8354a7aa5f8ba95b319f54f70e3e8aa9dbb7 Indeed, the message warning is not very descriptive, but on RHEL6 the range is limited to 0 - 30 seconds.
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