Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 216439
system-config-kickstart crash when there is NO Internet connection available
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:49 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2 Description of problem: If there is no Internet connection available on the host where system-config-kickstart run, system-config-kickstart crash. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-kickstart-2.6.17-1.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use a host on a private subnet without any Internet routing 2.run system-config-kickstart Actual Results: Wait a few seconds, and s-c-k crash. Expected Results: s-c-k should work and permit the ks file configuration. Additional info: [root@LinuxFC6-NSC system-config-kickstart]# system-config-kickstart Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=i386 error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')> Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-6&arch=i386 error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')> system-config-kickstart requires either the base or development yum repository enabled for package selection. Please enable one of these in /etc/yum.repos.d and restart the program. [root@LinuxFC6-NSC system-config-kickstart]# rpm -q system-config-kickstart system-config-kickstart-2.6.17-1.fc6 [root@LinuxFC6-NSC system-config-kickstart]# rpm -q pykickstart pykickstart-0.36-1
Okay, committed a fix to disable the package selection screen if there are problems downloading yum repo information. This will be in the next build of s-c-kickstart for rawhide and will probably be released as an FC-6 update.
Hi, why disabling the package selection screen ? What will happend if i want to configure a kickstart file (and select packages) to use with the official CD/DVD Release as install media ? Disabling package selection if there is no Internet connection, will result to a lost of functionalities.
Because s-c-kickstart uses pirut to provide that screen, and if pirut cannot access the repodata then it's going to crash like you were seeing. We can't just make up a set of packages for that screen, so disabling it if there are problems with the underlying system is really the only way to go.