Bug 2208340 - rhsm kickstart command does not work with livemedia-creator
Summary: rhsm kickstart command does not work with livemedia-creator
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Status: POST
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: lorax
Version: 9.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Brian Lane
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Reported: 2023-05-18 16:06 UTC by Brian Lane
Modified: 2023-07-13 07:33 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-157660 0 None None None 2023-05-18 16:06:59 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RTT-5330 0 None None None 2023-05-19 08:43:59 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RTT-5331 0 None None None 2023-05-19 08:44:04 UTC

Description Brian Lane 2023-05-18 16:06:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
When using the rhsm kickstart command with livemedia-creator on RHEL the installation is terminated before it installs the packages.

The problem is that Anaconda tries to mount the repositories from the cdrom/dvd before trying the CDN specified by the rhsm command. livemedia-creator sees the error and assumes the installation has failed so it kills the VM before Anaconda has fallen back to the CDN source.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
lorax-34.9.23-1
anaconda-38.23.4-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a kickstart using rhsm for the content
2. Run livemedia-creator with the kickstart
3. Observe that the installation fails after an error

    18:10:59,811 ERR anaconda:packaging: base repo (CDROM/file:///run/install/sources/mount-0000-cdrom) not valid -- removing it

Upstream patch for lorax to work around this:
https://github.com/weldr/lorax/pull/1325

(Anaconda should probably also be changed to more intelligently select the base repo when using kickstart and rhsm but this should work around it for now).
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