Bug 1652794 - Official fedora server netinst image has f28 branding and points at f28 mirrors rather than f29
Summary: Official fedora server netinst image has f28 branding and points at f28 mirro...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 29
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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urgent
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2018-11-23 03:38 UTC by Joel W Pauling
Modified: 2019-11-27 20:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-11-27 20:16:27 UTC
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Description Joel W Pauling 2018-11-23 03:38:26 UTC
Description of problem:

Downloading the official f29 server netinst from here 

https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/29/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2.iso

Boots into f28 installer UI elements and mirrors point at f28; resulting in numerous dependency issues.



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

Fedora 29 Server

How reproducible:

Re-downloaded from several mirrors same results
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download the netinst iso for fedora 29 server
2.Load ISO and boot from BMS/VM
3.Select package source as 'closest mirror'
4. Make some additional package selections
5. 

Actual results:

installer throws a dependency error and exit dialog

Expected results:

f29 netinst procedes 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2018-12-03 16:51:40 UTC
I cannot duplicate this here... if I download the Fedora 29 server netinstall, I get Fedora 29. 

Can you doublecheck your image and checksums?

Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2018-12-03 17:19:13 UTC
openQA test also did not see this. https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/300593 is the install_default test for this ISO (note "Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2.iso" in the ISO_URL setting); screenshots, e.g. https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/300593#step/_boot_to_anaconda/4 , clearly show 'Fedora 29' branding in installer and installed system.

If the installer actually had "mirrors point[ing] at f28", I wouldn't expect dependency issues - after all, the f28 repos are internally consistent. You'd just get a working f28 install.

Is it possible that instead you were installing with a custom kickstart or a particular package selection, and there happen to be dependency issues in that package selection that involve packages with .fc28 tags from the F29 repo (i.e. packages that were not rebuilt during the F29 cycle)?

Comment 3 Joel W Pauling 2018-12-03 20:48:34 UTC
I downloaded it three times (on release day a couple of days after) ; I did wonder if it was a CDN issue - but even if it is then we need to figure out why it's serving old images out. Possibly a region thing (I am in NZ/APAC)

aenertia@kiorewha:~/Downloads$ md5sum Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2.iso
4d945bed10f6c587562630a3860a130f  Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2.iso
aenertia@kiorewha:~/Downloads$ md5sum 'Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2(1).iso'
4d945bed10f6c587562630a3860a130f  Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2(1).iso
aenertia@kiorewha:~/Downloads$ ls -al Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aenertia aenertia 621805568 Nov 23 16:30 'Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2(1).iso'
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aenertia aenertia 621805568 Nov 23 15:43  Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2.iso

Comment 4 Joel W Pauling 2018-12-03 20:49:59 UTC
Even the grub bootloader said f28 - I went through several different ways of installing (with different package selections etc).

It's only the net-inst that seemed to be doing it ; the full dvd was fine.

Comment 5 Joel W Pauling 2018-12-03 20:53:08 UTC
Just re-downloaded again; and indeed still serving out the same iso as it was on the 23rd to me :

aenertia@kiorewha:~/Downloads$ ls -al Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aenertia aenertia 621805568 Nov 23 16:30 'Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2(1).iso'
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aenertia aenertia 621805568 Dec  4 09:52 'Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2(2).iso'
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aenertia aenertia 621805568 Nov 23 15:43  Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2.iso
aenertia@kiorewha:~/Downloads$ md5sum 'Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2(2).iso'
4d945bed10f6c587562630a3860a130f  Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2(2).iso

Comment 6 Joel W Pauling 2018-12-03 20:58:10 UTC
aenertia@kiorewha:~/Downloads$ sha256sum Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2.iso
aa7fb0e6e5b71774ebdaab0dae76bdd9246a5bc7aedc28b7f1103aaaf9750654  Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2.iso

matches the checksum at : https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/releases/29/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-29-1.2-x86_64-CHECKSUM

# Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2.iso: 621805568 bytes
SHA256 (Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-29-1.2.iso) = aa7fb0e6e5b71774ebdaab0dae76bdd9246a5bc7aedc28b7f1103aaaf9750654

It may be an issue with aarnet's mirror which seems to be what I hit when I expand

https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/29/Server/x86_64/iso/ 

I am actually hitting: 

https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/releases/29/Server/x86_64/iso/

Comment 7 Joel W Pauling 2018-12-03 21:13:10 UTC
I wonder if this is a by-product of how things get populated. 

IIRC the RC's simply get renamed if there are no changes. I wonder if an RC got linked/copied to the finals name at some-point and the CDN/Mirror hasn't updated it since.

Likely it's better to make at least a single 'RELEASE" file change in the final version than simply accepting an RC and naming it RELEASE if that's the case to get the checksums to change etc.

Comment 8 Kevin Fenzi 2018-12-03 23:09:55 UTC
That checksum is correct, so thats the right image...

What virtualization software are you using? Are you sure it doesn't have a f28 media setup in virtual media that it's still booting from or something like that?

Comment 9 Joel W Pauling 2018-12-04 08:46:00 UTC
Installing to baremetal dell r620's (sandybridge)

Comment 10 Joel W Pauling 2018-12-04 08:48:05 UTC
Booted via vflash upload of the iso to a partition which then get's locally attached as media for boot, and also attempted via the idrac virtual media from the iso locally. Same results.

Comment 11 Joel W Pauling 2018-12-04 08:50:46 UTC
These machines were completely cleaned off / re-inited any SD cards and local SAS SSD's are brand new. 

I had put rhel76 on them prior to going to f29 after failing with rhel8 due to deprecated megaraid_sas in the rhel8 beta.

Comment 12 Vendula Poncova 2018-12-07 12:22:56 UTC
(In reply to Joel W Pauling from comment #6)
> It may be an issue with aarnet's mirror which seems to be what I hit when I
> expand
> 
> https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/29/Server/
> x86_64/iso/ 
> 
> I am actually hitting: 
> 
> https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/releases/29/Server/x86_64/iso/

I am not able to reproduce the issue with an iso from this mirror.

Comment 13 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 20:21:21 UTC
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Comment 14 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 20:16:27 UTC
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