Bug 529277 - kernel and post kernel kickstart options broken
Summary: kernel and post kernel kickstart options broken
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Spacewalk
Classification: Community
Component: Server
Version: 0.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Partha Aji
QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: space09 578253
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-10-15 21:11 UTC by Michael Rudel
Modified: 2010-05-05 14:57 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 481320
: 578253 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-05-05 14:57:19 UTC
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Description Michael Rudel 2009-10-15 21:11:03 UTC
This bug is still around but not in the same sense.

If you specify a 'kernel option' or a 'post kernel option' that is not a key=value pair, spacewalk+cobbler actually passes it as:

key=

for example, i want to specify 'latefcload' and 'nostorage', but i'm acutally passing 'latefcload=' and 'nostorage='



+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #481320 +++

Description of problem:

Setting kernel options or post kernel options for a kickstart doesn't work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Every time. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set kernel and post kernel options at 
2.  Click update kickstart
  
Actual results:

Both options are blanked out, and are not obviously stored and used anywhere.

Expected results:

Options should still be visible in the webui, and subsequent installs using that kickstart profile should include those parameters.

Additional info:

--- Additional comment from johnh.ac.uk on 2009-01-23 10:37:02 EDT ---

More info definitely required.  I was trying "vnc vncpassword=foo" as the post kernel options, but it won't let you have a single word as an option, it was name=value.

Is this just the wrong place to be doing it?

--- Additional comment from cperry on 2009-06-23 13:32:25 EDT ---

I think this was resolved by a recent commit. Assigning to Partha for review.

--- Additional comment from paji on 2009-07-15 22:19:38 EDT ---

Yeo SHould be resolved..

--- Additional comment from msuchy on 2009-09-10 08:05:12 EDT ---

Spacewalk 0.6 released

--- Additional comment from mrudel on 2009-10-15 16:37:58 EDT ---

this does not appear to be fixed in 0.6

if you specify options such as:

nostorage latefcload 

in the 'kernel options' portion of the kickstart profile, it actually passes them to the install kernel like this:

nostorage= latefcload=

Comment 1 Jan Pazdziora 2009-10-16 07:01:59 UTC
Amending component to Server.

Comment 2 Partha Aji 2010-03-22 22:45:40 UTC
This issue is related to cobbler rendering the template incorrectly. Spacewalk is passing the options accurately to cobbler. A patch has been sent to the cobbler upstream and that should resolve the customer's issue. Check
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2010-March/005463.html for more info.

Comment 3 Miroslav Suchý 2010-05-05 14:57:19 UTC
This bug has been fixed in Spacewalk 1.0.
Closing.


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