Bug 515905 - Boot F-12-Alpha CD using kickstart with nfs repository fails
Summary: Boot F-12-Alpha CD using kickstart with nfs repository fails
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Radek Vykydal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-08-06 10:50 UTC by Liam Li
Modified: 2010-12-05 06:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-12-05 06:38:42 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
kickstart file (1.48 KB, text/plain)
2009-08-06 10:50 UTC, Liam Li
no flags Details
kickstartnfs error (6.24 KB, image/png)
2009-08-06 10:51 UTC, Liam Li
no flags Details
tty2 screen shot (15.73 KB, image/png)
2009-08-06 10:52 UTC, Liam Li
no flags Details
tty4 screen shot,soory the above one is tty3 screen shot (15.66 KB, image/png)
2009-08-06 10:53 UTC, Liam Li
no flags Details
tty5 screen shot (13.59 KB, image/png)
2009-08-06 10:53 UTC, Liam Li
no flags Details
all files in /tmp (130.00 KB, application/x-tar)
2009-08-07 01:30 UTC, Liam Li
no flags Details

Description Liam Li 2009-08-06 10:50:40 UTC
Created attachment 356480 [details]
kickstart file

Description of problem:
 This bug is the same as bug 507093? if so, we have this issue even since f10?
f12 rawhide anaconda kickstart does not support NFS install
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
f12 alpha

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot system with f12 alpha to start a kickstart installation
2.when welcome appears,press [tab] key to add options,add ks=http://xxxx/ks.cfg to the end of line, and boot
3. if the kickstart file specified nfs install, installation will fail,the output errors,please see attached pictures.If don't specify install method in kickstart file,installer will install with local media,installation will success.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:
specify nfs install in kickstart file should install successfully

Additional info:

Comment 1 Liam Li 2009-08-06 10:51:42 UTC
Created attachment 356481 [details]
kickstartnfs error

Comment 2 Liam Li 2009-08-06 10:52:11 UTC
Created attachment 356482 [details]
tty2 screen shot

Comment 3 Liam Li 2009-08-06 10:53:15 UTC
Created attachment 356483 [details]
tty4 screen shot,soory the above one is tty3 screen shot

Comment 4 Liam Li 2009-08-06 10:53:51 UTC
Created attachment 356484 [details]
tty5 screen shot

Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2009-08-06 17:44:43 UTC
Can you attach /tmp/program.log to this bug report?  There's plenty of reasons why mount may have failed, and whatever error message you got should be in that file.  Thanks.

Comment 6 Liam Li 2009-08-07 01:30:51 UTC
Created attachment 356606 [details]
all files in /tmp

Comment 7 Radek Vykydal 2009-08-07 13:53:30 UTC
The message also shows up when the nfs location set in ks is just incorrect, can't this be your case?

Comment 8 Chris Lumens 2009-08-07 14:36:52 UTC
(2, None) is still a pretty terrible error message, regardless.

What does your nfs mount look like?  Is this an nfsiso install?  What happens if you run the same mount command by hand on tty2?

Comment 9 James Laska 2009-08-07 14:47:49 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> (2, None) is still a pretty terrible error message, regardless.
> 
> What does your nfs mount look like?  Is this an nfsiso install?  

# mount 10.66.70.83:/lili/f12/i386 /tmp/foo
# ls a /tmp/foo/

.                              RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora                  RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test-i386
..                             RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-10-primary       RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test-ia64
EFI                            RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386             RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test-ppc
GPL                            RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ia64             RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test-ppc64
images                         RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc              RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test-primary
isolinux                       RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc64            RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test-x86_64
media.repo                     RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-primary          RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64
Packages                       RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test             TRANS.TBL
README-BURNING-ISOS-en_US.txt  RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test-10-primary
repodata                       RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test-11-primary

Comment 10 James Laska 2009-08-07 20:18:26 UTC
We have positive test results from NFS installs performed manually and via kickstart.  Something may be unique about the conditions of this failure.

In the log file I see:  05:24:45 INFO    : anaconda called with cmdline = ['/usr/bin/anaconda', '--stage2', 'cdrom:///dev/sr0:/mnt/stage2', '--kickstart', '/tmp/ks.cfg', '-T', '--selinux', '--repo', 'nfs:10.66.70.83:/lili/f12/i386']

Does this mean ...
 * booting the installer with CD/DVD 
 * providing a kickstart file
 * kickstart file references an nfs repository

I suspect the difference might be that we are booting CD/DVD.  Where the positive NFS test results were all medialess boot methods (see http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/ap-medialess-install.html)

Comment 11 Chris Lumens 2009-08-07 20:56:37 UTC
I would be interested in seeing what the behavior under F11 was.  I don't think we've changed much in repo configuration recently, aside from some patches Jeremy had for CDs that are very suspicious here.

See 9756532b6fdd94ba7ab3b85bbc720785f781c52d for details.

Comment 12 Liam Li 2009-08-10 04:29:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> I would be interested in seeing what the behavior under F11 was.  I don't think
> we've changed much in repo configuration recently, aside from some patches
> Jeremy had for CDs that are very suspicious here.
> 
> See 9756532b6fdd94ba7ab3b85bbc720785f781c52d for details.  


F11 is the same

Comment 13 Chris Lumens 2009-09-23 14:46:40 UTC
Radek has been taking a look at a lot of these sorts of issues lately.

Comment 14 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 11:16:11 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 15 Radek Vykydal 2009-12-15 16:51:22 UTC
I am not able to reproduce the bug and without more logging information about failing mount then we provide in f12-alpha I am clueless. I've fixed logging of mount in rawhide/f13, so the only chance of moving ahead with this bug I see is
reproducing with anaconda of version 13.9 or newer.

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