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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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