Bug 1507766 - Cannot install with netboot set to DHCP
Summary: Cannot install with netboot set to DHCP
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 27
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-31 05:48 UTC by Steven Haigh
Modified: 2018-11-30 19:51 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-11-30 19:51:42 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Steven Haigh 2017-10-31 05:48:08 UTC
When installing F27 as a Xen DomU, if you use DHCP as the network install method, the downloads abort part way through. This seems to be in regards to a network configuration issue.

Using the following line in the kickstart, and no network related entries in the kernel command line, the following occurs:
    network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=yes

[  OK  ] Reached target Encrypted Volumes.
[  OK  ] Reached target System Initialization.
[  OK  ] Listening on Open-iSCSI iscsiuio Socket.
[  OK  ] Reached target Sockets.
[  OK  ] Reached target Paths.
[  OK  ] Started Forward Password Requests to Plymouth Directory Watch.
[  OK  ] Reached target Basic System.
[   10.172798] systemd-udevd (622) used greatest stack depth: 12688 bytes left
[   10.324889] dracut-initqueue[616]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
[   11.178663] ip (761) used greatest stack depth: 11792 bytes left
[   16.224220] dracut-initqueue[616]:   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
[   16.225066] dracut-initqueue[616]:                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 12845  100 12845    0     0  12845      0  0:00:01 --:--:--  0:00:01  266k
[   17.970238] dracut-initqueue[616]:   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
[   17.971136] dracut-initqueue[616]:                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 32  404M   32  130M    0     0  5548k      0  0:01:14  0:00:24  0:00:50 5456k
 46  404M   46  188M    0     0  3859k      0  0:01:47  0:00:50  0:00:56     0

At this point, no further data transfer occurs.

If I set a static IP address in the kernel command line, and comment out the network line within the kickstart, all works as it should:

[  OK  ] Reached target Encrypted Volumes.
[  OK  ] Reached target System Initialization.
[  OK  ] Listening on Open-iSCSI iscsiuio Socket.
[  OK  ] Reached target Sockets.
[  OK  ] Reached target Paths.
[  OK  ] Started Forward Password Requests to Plymouth Directory Watch.
[  OK  ] Reached target Basic System.
[    9.713307] blkfront: xvda: flush diskcache: enabled; persistent grants: enabled; indirect descriptors: enabled;
[   10.980698] ip (738) used greatest stack depth: 11792 bytes left
[   11.001882] dracut-initqueue[615]: RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable
[   14.014456] dracut-initqueue[615]:   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
[   14.015360] dracut-initqueue[615]:                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 12846  100 12846    0     0  12846      0  0:00:01 --:--:--  0:00:01  392k
[   15.762217] dracut-initqueue[615]:   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
[   15.763161] dracut-initqueue[615]:                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 32  404M   32  132M    0     0  5669k      0  0:01:13  0:00:24  0:00:49 5519k
 68  404M   68  276M    0     0  5660k      0  0:01:13  0:00:50  0:00:24 5712k
100  404M  100  404M    0     0  5671k      0  0:01:13  0:01:13 --:--:-- 5509k
[   90.053472] loop: module loaded
[   90.721710] audit: type=1130 audit(1509427671.582:11): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=kernel msg='unit=dracut-initqueue comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
[  OK  ] Started dracut initqueue hook.
--- installer works as intended ---

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 17:02:24 UTC
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Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2018-11-30 19:51:42 UTC
Fedora 27 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2018-11-30. Fedora 27 is
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