Bug 500202 - Provisioning, non-xen-guest kickstarts hang at end of install due to cobbler snippet post_install_network_config
Summary: Provisioning, non-xen-guest kickstarts hang at end of install due to cobbler ...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Provisioning
Version: 530
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Justin Sherrill
QA Contact: wes hayutin
URL: na
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Blocks: 457075 486216
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Reported: 2009-05-11 16:53 UTC by wes hayutin
Modified: 2009-09-10 18:16 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: sat530
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-09-10 18:16:01 UTC
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Description wes hayutin 2009-05-11 16:53:54 UTC
Description of problem:

sat 5/7.1 build on rhel 5.

recreate:
1. register a rhel 4 or rhel 5 system
2. create a regular (non xen/kvm) ks profile
3. kickstart the box

results.. hangs at the very end after starting rhnd

work around, console in and reboot

expected results:  kickstart completes


speaking w/ Justin, one of the snippets is waiting for some data.
cobbler/snippets/post_install_networking_config

looks like the prob is around line 100 w/ modprobe and the interface name

Comment 1 Justin Sherrill 2009-05-11 17:47:28 UTC
So this was fixed upstream in cobbler (commit 93bb34c0), need to track it down and see why it's not in webqa.

Comment 2 Justin Sherrill 2009-05-11 22:03:39 UTC
To clarify the steps to reproduce:

1.   Register a RHEL 5 machine and set it up as a virt host (making sure that the xen kernel is booted)

2.  Try to re-provision the machine.

3.  %post section will hang

Comment 3 Justin Sherrill 2009-05-18 16:03:45 UTC
patch backported in 3rd party git:

731308dea6c946d466606dbb11cd58a3c0a6e259
3b2a5391920d72fad647787a876cad2f142163d1

Comment 4 wes hayutin 2009-05-26 18:15:41 UTC
verified 5/21.1

Comment 5 Tomas Lestach 2009-09-10 11:24:56 UTC
Followed test plan from Comment#2.
(I re-provisioned the xen host twice
 - once to achieve virt host (1)
 - 2nd time to do step (2)

Successfully re-provisioned a xen host in both cases. Machine didn't hang and after every ks it was ready to use.

Right after ks:
# uname -r
2.6.18-164.el5xen
# xm list
Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State   Time(s)
Domain-0                                   0      878     2 r-----     27.9

Stage validated -> RELEASE_PENDING

Comment 6 Brandon Perkins 2009-09-10 18:16:01 UTC
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


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