Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 453212
install exited abnormally when attempting remote vnc install
Last modified: 2008-07-11 17:32:26 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0 Description of problem: when trying to perform a remote installation of RHEL 5.2 i386 using the DVD image, the installer crashes before the VNC server session is established. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from RHEL 5.2 i386 DVD (As a guest OS in VMWare Server) 2.Type 'linux vnc vncpaasword="install"' 3.Except defaults 4.For network configuration specify IPv4 manual or DHCP, IPv6 off. (It fails for both manual and DHCP.) Actual Results: Installer aborts with error. wait… Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 574, in ? import signal, traceback, string, isys, iutil, time File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 26, in ? import iutil File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 22, in ? from flags import flags File "/usr/lib/anaconda/flags.py", line 99, in ? flags = Flags() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/flags.py", line 73, in __init__ self.__dict__['flags']['cmdline'] = self.createCmdlineDict() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/flags.py", line 43, in createCmdlineDict lst = shlex.split(cmdline) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shlex.py", line 279, in split return list(lex) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shlex.py", line 269, in next token = self.get_token() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shlex.py", line 96, in get_token raw = self.read_token() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shlex.py", line 172, in read_token raise ValueError, "No closing quotation" ValueError: No closing quotation Install exited abnormally [1/1] Expected Results: Starting VNC... The VNC Server is now running. Please connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1 to begin the install... (Worked Ok using 5.1 CD 1 i386) Additional info:
This is fixed in Fedora, and will therefore be fixed in the next major release of RHEL. If you require a fix for this issue in an update release of RHEL5, please talk to your support representative who will raise this issue through the appropriate channels. Thanks. As a workaround, I suggest leaving off the quotes from the password. We've seen some issues where certain pxe implementations strip off only a single quote mark at the end of the arguments and that might be what's happening here, though you are booting off the CD. Could still be strange implementation problems.