The following script in the %post install of a kickstart file will hang... %post mkdir /mnt/hb mount hb.us.dell.com:/home /mnt/hb cd /mnt/hb/share/setup ./setup This bug verified in RC2 and QA0309. The rest of the kickstart file follows: # L A N G U A G E S P E C I F I C A T I O N (Required for upgrade) lang en_US # N E T W O R K C O N F I G U R A T I O N network --bootproto dhcp # I N S T A L L A T I O N M E T H O D (Required for upgrade) nfs --server 10.180.92.254 --dir /home/ftp/pub/Distros/RedHat/florence/rc2/install # D E V I C E S P E C I F I C A T I O N (Required for upgrade) device scsi aic7xxx #device eth eepro100 # R E B O O T S P E C I F I C A T I O N reboot # K E Y M A P S P E C I F I C A T I O N (Required for upgrade) keyboard us # M O U S E S P E C I F I C A T I O N mouse generic3ps/2 --emulthree # P A R T I T I O N S P E C I F I C A T I O N zerombr yes clearpart --all part /boot --size 20 --ondisk sda part / --size 512 --ondisk sda part swap --size 512 --ondisk sda part /tmp --size 768 --ondisk sda part /usr --size 3072 --ondisk sda --grow part /var --size 1024 --ondisk sda part /home --size 2048 --ondisk sda # I N S T A L L / U P G R A D E S P E C I F I C A T I O N install # T I M E Z O N E S P E C I F I C A T I O N timezone CST6CDT --utc # X W I N D O W S Y S T E M S P E C I F I C A T I O N #xconfig skipx # R O O T P A S S W O R D rootpw 111111 auth --useshadow --enablemd5 # L I L O C O N F I G U R A T I O N (Required for upgrade) lilo --location mbr --linear # P A C K A G E S P E C I F I C A T I O N %packages @ Server
The same _exact_ kickstart file (except for the install path), works just fine with RH7.0
On vc2, in the bash prompt, a 'ps ax' shows the 'mount' command stuck. Eventually (>5 mins) the machine will reboot itself. There are no messages in /tmp/syslog or on VC3 or VC4.
Actually, I didn't wait long enough for the messages. Before rebooting the following mesages appear on VC4: from memory: (will update bugzilla after reproducing and copying error msg) portmap: connection to localhost timed out portmap: connection to localhost timed out portmap: connection to localhost timed out lock_fh: ... portmap: connection to localhost timed out
Add "-o nolock" to the mount command line fixes this issue.