Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 488603
In KickstartScriptEdit, leaving "scripting language" as blank results in unusable kickstart file.
Last modified: 2009-09-10 15:24:30 EDT
Description of problem: When adding steps to a "script" for a kickstart, I left the "scripting language" empty, as the tooltip said it would use the install-time shell if I left it blank. I then attempted to do a kickstart and received an error message that no argument was given to interpreter. /rhn/kickstart/KickstartScriptEdit.do This is the text on the page: Examples: '/usr/bin/python' '/usr/bin/perl'. Tip: Leave this field blank to use the install-time shell as language for your post script. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Satellite-5.3.0-RHEL5-re20090227.1-i386-embedded-oracle.iso How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create kickstart 2. Add a post script to run in chroot 3. Add some steps and leave "scripting language" blank 4. Look at the generated kickstart file Actual results: Near the end of the kickstart file you will see the steps you added, look at the "%post --interpreter" line. There is no program specified for the interpreter. Expected results: %post --interpreter /bin/bash or %post --interpreter /bin/sh Additional info: This is the script I'm running for my test. %post --interpreter /bin/bash mkdir /tmp/centos5-tools-channel cd /tmp/centos5-tools-channel wget -r -l 1 -nd http://rlx-3-22.rhndev.redhat.com/pub/centos5-tools-channel rpm -Uvh *.rpm rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http://rlx-3-22.rhndev.redhat.com/XMLRPC --activationkey=1-centos5-key --force
I could not reproduce this issue. Kickstart format specified in http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-postinstallconfig.html says that we can leave it just as %post if no interpreter is specified I just tested and it looks like we are indeed doing that.. I could not locate "%post --interpreter" with a blank showing up.. The only time I was able to reproduce the above issue was when we had a space, i.e. " " (without the quotes) for the interpreter when generating the post script.. This should be fixed in the next iso http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spacewalk.git?p=spacewalk.git;a=commit;h=2bf22ba666bb6f688c8cbac58e8e7dc38f57e406
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An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-1434.html